page_title: Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop
section_title: Museum exhibitions
hierarchical_section_title: Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop / Museum exhibitions
caption_attribution_description: English: In April of 2019, the exhibit Contact High - A Visual History of Hip Hop, opened at The Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City (Los Angeles), California. It was the most comprehensive exhibit of hip hop photography to date and based on the curator Vikki Tobak's best-selling photography book of the same name (Penguin Random House). Français&#160;: En avril 2019, l'exposition Contact High - Une histoire visuelle du hip-hop, a ouvert ses portes à The Annenberg Space for Photography à Century City (Los Angeles), en Californie. Il s’agissait de l’exposition la plus complète sur la photographie hip hop à ce jour, inspirée du best-seller de la conservatrice Vikki Tobak, le livre de photographies du même nom (Penguin Random House). Português: Em abril de 2019, a exposição Contact High - Uma História Visual do Hip Hop, abriu no The Annenberg Space for Photography em Century City (Los Angeles), Califórnia. Foi a exposição mais abrangente de fotografia de hip hop até hoje e baseada no livro de fotografia de mesmo nome do curador Vikki Tobak (Penguin Random House). Русский: В апреле 2019 года выставка «Контакт высокого уровня - визуальная история хип-хопа» открылась в «The Annenberg Space for Photography» в Сенчури-Сити (Лос-Анджелес), штат Калифорния. Это была самая полная выставка хип-хоп фотографии на сегодняшний день, основанная на бестселлере куратора Викки Тобака с одноименным названием (Penguin Random House). Español: En abril de 2019, la exposición Contact High - A Visual History of Hip Hop, se inauguró en el The Annenberg Space for Photography en Century City (Los Ángeles), California. Fue la exposición más completa de fotografía de hip hop hasta la fecha y se basa en el libro de fotografía más vendido del curador Vikki Tobak (Penguin Random House).
context_page_description: Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop is a 2018 photography book created and written by Vikki Tobak and ongoing exhibition series. The volume features contact prints from analog photography sessions of hip hop artists during roughly forty-years, from the beginnings of the genre in the late 1970s until the late 2000s.
  Beginning first as an Instagram account in 2016 created by Tobak, the then entitled Contact High Project soon appeared as a regular column in Mass Appeal. It was shown in exhibit form for the first time at the 2017 Photoville in Brooklyn before being signed to a book deal in 2018.
context_section_description: Los Angeles:
  In April 2019, The Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles hosted an exhibit, also called Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop, reflecting the entirety of the book's content. It was curated by the author, Vikki Tobak, with creative direction by Fab Five Freddy.
  In addition to videos, memorabilia, and music to complement the photographs, the exhibit also included a documentary short film  produced by the Annenberg Foundation and RadicalMedia directed by Melissa Haizlip, featuring a selection of the Contact High photographers at work and in conversation including; Janette Beckman, Danny Clinch, Eric Coleman, Joe Conzo, Brian B+ Cross, Jack McKain, Estevan Oriol, Jorge Peniche, Ithaka Darin Pappas, Dana Scruggs and Jamel Shabazz.
  One of the pieces in the exhibit is an installation surrounding Barron Claiborne’s group of portraits of The Notorious B.I.G wearing a plastic gold crown in front of a bright red backdrop. The pictures were made in March 1997, three days before the rapper's untimely death. The most known image from the series entitled "The King of New York," is one photograph from a couple of dozen of the rapper from the photo session. Most of these other photographs had never been seen by the public before inclusion in the book Contact High. In addition to a 100 cm x 150 cm print of the principal image, the museum exhibit installation of "The King Of New York" featured one of Small's music videos playing on a small screen alongside two enlarged contact prints as well as the plastic crown that Claiborne had purchased for the shoot.
  New York:
  After the exhibit's debut in Los Angeles, Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop was exhibited in its entirety for the second time from January 18th 2020-May 15th 2020 at the International Center of Photography in New York as part of the inauguration of the ICP's new location at 79 Essex Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The exhibit's opening event was attended by Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei, Questlove, ASAP Rocky, Debi Mazar, Jasmine Lobe, curator and writer Antwaun Sargent, Contact High curator Vikki Tobak and exhibiting photographers; Janette Beckman, Danny Hastings,  Jorge Peniche,  Ithaka Darin Pappas, Ricky Powell, Lisa Leone, Al Pereira, Barron Clairborne, Dephine Fawandu, Mark Seliger and  Joe Conzo Jr.
caption: Contact High: A Visual History of Hip Hop exhibit at The Annenberg Space For Photography 2019
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