Gamechangers: Photography & Rap Legacy

Art­Crawl Harlem presents an artist talk with famed hip hop pho­tog­ra­ph­er Ernie Pan­ic­ci­oli, best­selling author of ​“Hip Hop at the End of the World” and ​“Who Shot Ya?.” Pan­ic­ci­oli first made his for­ay into the cul­ture in 1973 when he began cap­tur­ing the ever-present graf­fi­ti art dom­i­nat­ing NYC. Armed with a 35-mil­lime­ter cam­era, Pan­ic­ci­oli has record­ed the entire evo­lu­tion of Hip Hop. Pan­ic­ci­oli, him­self Native Amer­i­can, is known for his spe­cial eye for cap­tur­ing peo­ple and com­mu­ni­ties ignored or mis­un­der­stood by main­stream Amer­i­ca. Start­ing with snap­ping pho­tos of graf­fi­ti art in 1973 in NYC, he evolved to become the pic­to­r­i­al arche­ol­o­gist of hip hop

Ernie Pan­ic­ci­oli Pho­to Archive, col­lec­tion offers dig­i­tal ver­sions of near­ly 20,000 pho­tographs by Ernie Pan­ic­ci­oli, one of hip hop’s most pro­lif­ic and promi­nent pho­tog­ra­phers. Pre­sent­ed by Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty Library’s Hip Hop archives with the per­mis­sion of Ernie Pan­ic­ci­oli, these pho­tographs pro­vide an unprece­dent­ed visu­al his­to­ry of hip hop cul­ture of the 1980s, 1990s, and ear­ly 2000s.

Art­Crawl Harlem is one of the 2024 Gov­er­nors Island Arts Orga­ni­za­tions in Res­i­dence.