Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ricky Powell
The photographic genre of people in parties striking poses for the camera has never held the slightest interest for me, but it's not every party photographer who's the subject of a monograph from Powerhouse, and so I thought Powell might be worth a second look. "Fails ", we read above; yet a quick look in Google Books turns up one book (from Princeton University Press, no less) with a mention of our man as ''the photographer who was particularly influential in documenting the 1980s hip-hop and party scene.'' Granted, this is in a peculiarly breathless book for a university press, one whose author elsewhere earnestly reports on the brands of people's clothes and unashamedly uses gushy if vapid descriptions such as "legendary". Still, it might count for something
— User:Hoary, 01:35, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
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