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For more than 55 years, House’s Barbershop in Harlem sat at the convergence of Black masculinity, cultural landscape, and ritual—something that Jeffrey Henson Scales captured in his 2016 monograph-memoir, House. Now, that body of work, shot between 1986 and 1992 is on view at Claire Oliver Gallery, where Scales deftly captures the intimate details that made House’s a vital space for the community at the height of the neighborhood’s struggle with the crack epidemic. “This was the beginning of a five-year journey within the walls of this narrow place imbued with so much history,” Scales recalls of first accepting proprietor David House’s invitation to enter and document the space.