Sue Kwon: Rap Is Risen: New York Photographs 1988-2008
The last decade of the 20th century into the first decade of the 21st represent a High Renaissance age of hip hop–an era in which rap music had reached critical mass and was exploding, and in which New York City itself witnessed the worldwide ascension and cultural domination of its powerful homegrown art form. In Rap Is Risen: New York…