Jamel Shabazz

Flying High
1982, printed 2001

A young boy in an orange shirt is captured mid-flip above a pile of old mattresses on an urban street, while two other boys watch, one with arms crossed and the other with hands in pockets. Graffiti and a faded advertisement for Coca-Cola adorn the wall in the background.

A young boy in an orange shirt is captured mid-flip above a pile of old mattresses on an urban street, while two other boys watch, one with arms crossed and the other with hands in pockets. Graffiti and a faded advertisement for Coca-Cola adorn the wall in the background.

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Date
1982, printed 2001

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Chromogenic print

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 × 20in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm) Image: 14 1/4 × 19 1/2in. (36.2 × 49.5 cm)

Accession number
2010.132

Series
Back in the Days

Edition
9/9

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Arthur and Susan Fleischer

Rights and reproductions
© Jamel Shabazz or "Photographs by Jamel Shabazz"

API
artworks/37370

Exhibitions

Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection

Apr 2, 2016–Apr 2, 2017

Jamel Shabazz
3 works in the collection

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