Maï Lucas- Hip Hop Diary of a Fly Girl- 1986-1996 Paris

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Book: Maï Lucas Hip Hop Diary of a Fly Girl 1986-199 Paris
Author: Maï Lucas
Hardcover
Published: 2021, First Edition!
Pages: 138
Dimensions: 26 x 19 x 1.8 cm.

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Between introspection and testimony, the book offers a dive into the intimacy and genesis of French HipHop. Through 103 photos, Mai LUCAS pays tribute to the temples of this movement: Ticaret, the wasteland of La Chapelle, the Globo, Radio Nova. We discover portraits of young rappers: MC Solaar, Booba, Joey Starr, Assassin, Stomy Bugsy, Doc Gyneco, Kery James, Alliance Ethnik, Oxmo Puccino.des Dj: Cut Killer, Dee nasty, Fab. and graffiti artists such as Jonone, Bando, Mode2, Sign and Futura 2000.

Since their emergence in the 1980s, hip-hop artists have sought to exist differently, to invent visible and catchy styles to assert themselves in society. They create new norms, in a certain non-violent indocility. Dance, rap, graffiti, street dance, krump, DJing… are all artistic gestures that carry this rebellious and unifying momentum. The photos of Maï Lucas, who photographed the genesis of this movement in France, are situated between a testimony and an aesthetic act. Witness to the first movement of hip-hop culture in France, she participates by capturing the energy of this youth in full creative and festive overflow. It’s her way of being outside with others, of catching their paces, their joys, their inventiveness, their sadness too. From Paris to New York, her lens is to meet those who are paving the way for hip-hop, in its diversity, spreading this culture all over the world.

Maï Lucas has been exhibiting her photos for more than twenty years, while continuing her work for fashion and the media.