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Janette Beckman

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Janette Beckman
human
Ein sex anaa genderfemale Edit
Ein country of citizenshipUnited Kingdom Edit
Name wey dem give amJanette Edit
Family nameBeckman Edit
Ein date of birth1959 Edit
Place dem born amLondon Edit
Languages edey speak, rep anaa signEnglish Edit
Ein occupationphotographer Edit
Educate forUniversity of the Arts London Edit
Has works in the collectionPhotography Collection Edit
Copyright status as creatorworks protected by copyrights Edit

Janette Beckman be British documentary photographer wey work insyd London, New York den Los Angeles.[1] Beckman dey describe einself as a documentary photographer.[2] While she dey produce a lot of work on location (such as de cover of The Police album Zenyatta Mondatta, dem take insyd de middle of a forest insyd de Netherlands), she sanso be a studio portrait photographer. Na ein work appear for records top for de major labels, den insyd magazines wey dey include Esquire, Rolling Stone, Glamour, Italian Vogue, The Times, Newsweek, Jalouse,[3] Mojo den odas.

Permanent Collections

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  • National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • Museum of the City of New York[4]
  • National Portrait Gallery, London[5]

Publications

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Publications by Beckman

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  • Rap: Portraits and Lyrics of a Generation of Black Rockers. America: St. Martin's, 1991. England: Omnibus, 1991. With text by Bill Adler.
  • Made in the UK; The Music of Attitude. PowerHouse, 2005. Images of, and stories about, a variety of bands and cultures from 1977 to 1983: rockabillies, punks, mods, and dub artists; Elvis Costello, Sex Pistols, The Ramones. With a foreword by Paul Smith, and an essay by Vivien Goldman.
  • The Breaks: Stylin' and Profilin. PowerHouse, 2007. Images of rap and hip hop stars from 1982 to 1990 including Afrika Bambaataa, Run DMC, Slick Rick, Salt-n-Pepa and Grandmaster Flash.
  • El Hoyo Maravilla. Dashwood Books, 2011. Photographs in El Hoyo Maravilla. Black and white photographs from the 1980s of one of East LA's Hispanic gangs.
  • The Mash Up: Hip-Hop Photos Remixed by Iconic Graffiti Artists Hat and Beard, 2018[6][7]
  • Rebels: From Punk to Dior. Drago, 2022[8]

Publications plus contributions by Beckman

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  • Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop by Vikki Tobak. Penguin Random House/Clarkson Potter, 2018.[9]
  • Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2021.[10]
  • Her Dior: Maria Grazia Chiuri's New Voice by Maria Grazia Chiuri, Text by Maria Luisa Frisa. Rizzoli, 2021.[11]
  • LL COOL J Presents 'The Streets Win: 50 Years of Hip-Hop Greatness' by LL COOL J and Vikki Tobak and Alec Banks, Rizzoli, 2023[12]

Selection of record sleeves

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The Police

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  • Outlandos d'Amour
  • Zenyatta Mondatta
  • Greatest Hits, The Police
  • Reggatta de Blanc

EPMD

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  • Unfinished Business
  • Strictly Business

Salt-n-Pepa

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  • A Salt With a Deadly Pepa
  • Push It
  • The Millennium Collection

Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five

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  • On the Strength
  • Gold

Oda

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  • The Go-Go's – "We Got the Beat"
  • M.I.A. – Kala
  • Peter Frampton – "Lying"
  • Joe Jackson – "Steppin' Out"
  • Jungle Brothers – "Doin' Our Own Dang"
  • Tracy Chapman – "Fast Car"
  • Ministry – "I Wanted To Tell Her"
  • UMC'S – Fruits of Nature
  • New Edition – "'Candy Girl'"
  • Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock – "Get on the Dance Floor"
  • Run-D.M.C. – "Mary Mary"
  • Babatundi Olatunji – Love Drum Talk
  • Monie Love – Down to Earth (US cover)
  • Dana Dane – Dana Dane with Fame
  • Jennifer Koh – Violin Fantasies
  • The Gyrlz – Love Me Or Leave Me

References

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  1. ↑ OA News & Correspondence. Alfredians
  2. ↑ "Acapulco Gold interview". Acapulcogold.com. 8 December 2009. Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  3. ↑ "Jalouse". Patrimoine.jalougallery.com. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  4. ↑ "Collecting New York's Music Stories". Museum of the City of New York. 7 January 2020.
  5. ↑ "Collection Search". National Portrait Gallery.
  6. ↑ "The Mash Up: Hip-Hop Photos Remixed by Iconic Graffiti Artists". Hat & Beard Press.
  7. ↑ FOX (26 November 2018). "'The Mash Up' remixes hip-hop photos with graffiti". WNYW.
  8. ↑ Sayej, Nadja. "How Hip Hop Became High Fashion: Inside Janette Beckman's New Book". Forbes. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  9. ↑ "Contact High by Vikki Tobak – PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
  10. ↑ "Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap". National Museum of African American History and Culture.
  11. ↑ "Her Dior: Maria Grazia Chiuri's New Voice". Rizzoli.
  12. ↑ "The Streets Win". Rizzoli.
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