{"id":1217,"date":"2012-02-09T16:27:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2012-04-17T09:59:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T09:59:52","slug":"event-recap-mike-miller-at-known-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"RECAP: West Coast Hip Hop A History In Pictures With Mike Miller at Known Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The new book, West Coast Hip Hop, A History in Pictures<\/em>, documents Mike Miller\u2019s work in the 1990’s with artists like 2Pac, Cypress Hill, Snoop Dogg and Easy-E. To support the release, Known Gallery<\/a> displayed 43 never before seen images and kicked off opening night with old school rap, a Chevy Impala and Colt 45. We had a chance to speak with Miller, the photographer responsible for the iconic images of some of Hip Hops biggest legends.<\/span><\/p>\n

You grew up in Santa Monica, learned photography in Paris and worked in Barcelona. How did you get to this place working with these guys?<\/span><\/p>\n

I know, right? Everyone asks me that! It’s crazy but It was just a series of events, and being at the right place at the right time. It was Paris to Spain, then back to LA. I was working with different companies, I did a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover, worked with jazz artists and then Arabian Prince was my first rap job. When I was shooting for Stussy I hooked up with Muggs,(Cypress Hill) and it went from there. When we did the first cover I didn’t realize how influential it would become for Hip Hop, or even on my career.<\/p>\n

One of the things I love about your work is that it seems that you are really capturing a moment, like the image with 2Pac walking down the sidewalk in front of the hubcaps, that’s a great photo. What was that like and how was it working with him?<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you. Thank you. Yah, he was a really good guy, we did a lot and liked working together. When I would photograph him I tried to make it like a movie, he was natural so I would kind of just set up in the background and watch. Those were some of the best shots<\/p>\n

Yah, they are amazing.The whole show is great. I love the one with Easy-E and the skateboard.<\/span><\/p>\n

That was my skateboard! I had it with me and he liked it so I took some shots. No one had seen those before.<\/p>\n

You can get info about\u00a0West Coast Hip Hop, A History in Rap<\/em> and\u00a0see more images at\u00a0www.mikemillerphoto.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Photos by Jenny B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new book, West Coast Hip Hop, A History in Pictures, documents Mike Miller\u2019s work in the 1990’s with artists like 2Pac, Cypress Hill, Snoop Dogg and Easy-E. To support the release, Known Gallery displayed 43 never before seen images and kicked off opening night with old school rap, a Chevy Impala and Colt 45. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79,8,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3633,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/3633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}