{"id":149366,"date":"2021-02-03T09:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T08:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=149366"},"modified":"2021-02-03T15:18:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T14:18:54","slug":"hip-hop-photographer-ricky-powell-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/hip-hop-photographer-ricky-powell-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip-Hop Photographer Ricky Powell Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"149367\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/hip-hop-photographer-ricky-powell-passed-away\/capture-104\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Capture-3.jpg?fit=768%2C459&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"768,459\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Radostin Pashov&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1612313111&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Capture\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Capture-3.jpg?fit=640%2C383&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Capture-3.jpg?fit=640%2C323&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"323\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-149367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Capture-3.jpg?resize=540%2C323&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Capture-3.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hip-Hop photographer <strong>Ricky Powell<\/strong>, who captured images of New York\u2019s cultural greats has died of heart failure at the age of 59. <\/p>\n<p>Ricky Powell got his big break in &#8217;86 by going on tour with the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, having previously attended high school with Ad-Rock. This developed into further work for Def Jam, including images of LL Cool J, Public Enemy and Eric B &#038; Rakim.<\/p>\n<p>He was immortalized in a Beastie Boys&#8217; song Car Thief \u2013 \u201cHomeboy, throw in the towel \/ Your girl got dicked by Ricky Powell\u201d \u2013 but also focused on subjects beyond hip-hop, photographing Andy Warhol, Madonna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vin Diesel and more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BlackoutHipHop extends condolences to <strong>Ricky Powell<\/strong>\u2018s friends, fans and family.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/386785011\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/386785011\">Ricky Powell_Trailer<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user98056924\">TIME STUDIOS<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2021\/feb\/02\/ricky-powell-hip-hop-photographer-who-captured-new-york-culture-dies-aged-59\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hip-Hop photographer Ricky Powell, who captured images of New York\u2019s cultural greats has died of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-CR8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}