Due to popular demand, The Annenberg Space for Photography's exhibit Contact High: A Visual History of Hip Hop which was curated by Vikki Tobak, creator of the best-selling book that the exhibit is based upon. The exhibit has creative direction by Fab 5 Freddy. The museum has received over sixty-thousand visitors in just three months.
Among the one-hundred and forty historical images in the show, are extremely rare photographs of Eazy-E by Ithaka Darin Pappas extended until August 25th, 2019.
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Watch the documentary: "Eazy E & Venice Locals (A Historic Day in the Brotherhood of Hip Hop and Skateboarding)"
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A photographer who took a famous photo of rapper Eazy-E 30 years ago sued skateboarding magazine brand Thrasher for allegedly reproducing and selling the photo on shirts without his permission.
Ithaka Darin Pappas is an artist known for photographing the emerging West Coast hip-hop culture of the late 1980s. Pappas said he took an “iconic” picture of Eazy-E of the influential rap group NWA “cavorting with local skateboarders in Venice Beach, California” in 1989.
Pappas said he learned in 2017 that Thrasher was selling t-shirts and sweatshirts that included his photograph without his permission. Pappas said that defendant
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