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Feb 02, 2021 Image via Johnny Nunez/WireImage/Getty Legendary hip-hop photographer, author, and honorary fourth Beastie Boy Ricky Powell has died, his manager and business partner Tono Radvany confirmed. "I just want to let everybody know he was a very special man, and he will be sorely missed," Radvany said. Though he's done a lot throughout his career, he was best known for the work he did with the Beastie Boys, in addition to capturing a number of iconic images of a range of celebrities that included Madonna, Run DMC, Andy Warhol, and Laurence Fishburne, among others. You can see so...

The photographer best known for his work with the Beastie Boys captured the downtown New York arts scene in the late ’80s and early ’90s

Hip-hop photographer and “the fourth Beastie Boy” Ricky Powell has died at 59 years old. The news was confirmed by his manager and business partner Tono Radvany, “I just want to let everybody know he was a very special man, and he will be sorely missed.” A New York City native, Powell was best known for his work with the Beastie Boys. He joined the group and Run-DMC for their Raising Hell tour in 1986, and a number of the photographs he took became some of the most remembered images in the history of music. He then became the de facto in-house photographer of Def Jam Recordings and w...

RIP, Ricky Powell, The Original Lazy Hustler and Legendary NYC Street Photographer February 01, 2021 | in Photography We think you'll like One of the great legends of NYC street photography and culture, the "Lazy Hustler" himself, Ricky Powell, died today at the age of 59. The iconic photographer was best known for his association with the Beastie Boys in the 1980s, as well as countless shots of hip-hop and NYC culture in those crucial days. Powell was also a valued editorial contributor to Juxtapoz throughout the decades, so the loss is both historical and personal. There are too many memori...

Ricky Powell, well-known photographer, author and honorary fourth member of the Beastie Boys, has died. According to a report from Page Six on Monday (Feb. 1), which is when the news of Powell's passing broke, he was 59 years old. The cause of death hasn't been revealed. The story of Powell becoming the rap crew's famed photographer started back in 1986, when the master behind the camera lens ditched a job selling lemon ices to roll with the Beastie Boys on Run-DMC's Hell Raising Tour. Some of the photos the New York City native took became famous, later making him Def Jam's in-house photo...