Photographers Ithaka Darin Pappas and Peter Augustin Strube at the opening of Walls at the Annenberg Space For Photography

Photographers Ithaka Darin Pappas and Peter Augustin Strube at the opening of Walls at the Annenberg Space For Photography curated by Dr. Jen Sudul Edwards (2019)

Annenberg photo exhibit Contact High featuring rare Eazy-E Photograph extended until August 25th

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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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

Extremely Rare Photo of Eazy E Skateboarding by Ithaka Darin Pappas now on Exhibit at "Contact High" hosted by The Annenberg Space For Photography

“Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop,” at the Annenberg Space for Photography. A new group show organized by author Vikki Tobak looks at the work of photographers who chronicled the rise of hip-hop, with famous prints (like the iconic portrait of Biggie Smalls in a crown by Barron Claiborne) as well as unedited contact sheets and other images of key musical figures from the genre, including Eazy-E, Jay-Z and Salt-N-Pepa. Tobak is the author of the bestselling book on which the exhibit is based. Opens Friday and runs through Aug. 18. 2000 Avenue of the Stars, Century City, AnnenbergPhotoSpace.org.

Rapper Eazy-E skateboarding in 1989 is among "Contact High" images. (Ithaka Darin Pappas)

Source: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-datebook-contact-high-annenberg-story.html

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Ithaka Darin Pappas with his image of Eazy E skateboarding in a bullet-proof vest (© 1989) at the exhibit, Contact High: A Visual History Of Hip Hop at The Annenberg Space For Photography

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