Rap in New York
A look at the history of an urban culture
In 1981, young French photographer Sophie Bramly traveled to New York, where she discovered the beginnings of rap and immediately saw in it a new urban culture on the verge of exploding. It was then that she decided to focus her work on the private lives of future stars such as Grand Master Caz and Afrika Bambaataa. A real treasure trove of archives that she will share with us alongside Lyle Owerko, a New York photographer with a passion for boomboxes (those giant radios and first vehicules for rap), who wrote the bookThe Boombox Project, which he will autograph this evening.