Cornell University Launched Ernie Paniccioli Photo Archive
Missy Elliott & Lil Kim dressed up as anime characters, resting between takes on the set of the Sock It 2 Me video. Biz Markie bouncing off his chair in a dressing room of the Apollo Theater. Doug E. Fresh blowing out candles on his birthday cake that’s decorated to look like a vinyl record, as Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs peers over his shoulder.
These and nearly 20,000 similar images can now be viewed online as Cornell University Library launched the Ernie Paniccioli Photo Archive, a digital collection chronicling hip-hop music and culture from the 80s to the early 00s by from one of Hip-Hop’s greatest photographers.
The collection features digitized photographic slides selected from Paniccioli’s larger archive of more than 100,000 images and artifacts housed in the Cornell Hip Hop Collection.
Check the full collections here.
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