When Hip-Hop Was Young

The New Yorker February 05, 2022 hip hop 42
When Hip-Hop Was Young

Hua Hsu writes about the photographer Sue Kwon’s images of hip-hop and rap artists, including Jay-Z, the Beastie Boys, and the Notorious B.I.G., collected in the book “Rap Is Risen: New York Photographs 1988-2008.”

Theres a casualness to these images, suggestions that Kwon was a part of the scene, not a disturbance. She was raised in New Haven, the third and youngest child of Korean immigrants. She arrived in M… Read more

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