B+ (photographer)

B+
Born Brian Cross
1966
Limerick, Ireland
Occupation Photographer, filmmaker
Website www.mochilla.com/bplus/

Brian Cross (born in 1966), better known as B+ (sometimes stylized as B Plus), is an Irish photographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California.[1] He is a co-founder of Mochilla, a film and music production company.[1] He predominantly photographed the Los Angeles' hip hop scene in the 1990s as well as helped create album art for a number of artists including Q-Tip, Eazy-E, Damian Marley, DJ Shadow, and J Dilla.[2]

Biography

Brian Cross was born and raised in Limerick, Ireland.[3] He became infatuated with hip hop upon hearing Schoolly D and Public Enemy in the late 1980s.[4] In 1989, he earned a degree in painting from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.[4] He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1990 to attend the California Institute of the Arts.[5] He quickly became entranced by Los Angeles' underground hip hop scene.[3]

In 1993, he published It's Not About a Salary: Rap, Race and Resistance in Los Angeles, which was a book of essays, interviews, and photography.[3] It featured conversations with and photographs of The Watts Prophets, Toddy Tee, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Cypress Hill, and Freestyle Fellowship.[4] In 2014, he was listed on Complex's "15 Rap Photographers Every Rap Fan Should Know" list.[2]

In 2017, he published Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed, which featured the faces of artists such as J Dilla, Brian Wilson, Leon Ware, George Clinton, and The Notorious B.I.G.[5]

Books

References

  1. 1 2 Palermo, Tomas (June 1, 2011). "Mochilla's B Plus on Endtroducing, J-Dilla, and the Last Ten Years of Hip-Hop Photography". SF Weekly. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  2. 1 2 Cheng, Susan (October 9, 2014). "15 Rap Photographers Every Rap Fan Should Know: B+". Complex. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 Hsu, Hua (December 26, 2017). "The World of Music Stardom, Through the Eyes of the Photographer B+". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 Bell, Max (January 20, 2018). "No One Sees Rap Like Photographer Brian Cross". Noisey. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  5. 1 2 Weiss, Layne (November 28, 2017). "Brian "B+" Cross's Photos Go Beyond Hip-Hop to Capture the Roots of a Whole Culture". LA Weekly. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
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