Subway Art

ISBN-13: 9780500292129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 128 str.

Martha Cooper

Opis

In new introductions, authors Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant recall how they gained entry into the New York City graffiti community in the 1970s and 1980s. New afterwords continue the story, tracing the decline of the subway and graffiti scene in the late 1980s to its unexpected rebirth as a global art movement. The authors reveal how the lives of the original subway artists have unfolded and mourn the loss of several to the darker forces of the street.

Recenzje

'The ultimate book for fans of graffiti ... captures 1980s-cool' - City Magazine

Spis treści

'Why don't you photograph graffiti?' Martha Cooper - 'If art like this is a crime, let God forgive me.' Henry Chalfant - SUBWAY ART - 'We may have lost the trains...' Martha Cooper - '... but we've gained the whole world.' Henry Chalfant

O autorze

Martha Cooper has contributed the photographs for over twenty books and is Director of Photography at City Lore, the New York Center for Urban Folk Culture. Henry Chalfant is an American photographer and videographer well known for his work on hip hop culture. He is the author of Spraycan Art, and his world-renowned documentation of the artists of the New York subway was memorialized in the most successful book on graffiti ever published, Subway Art, published by Thames & Hudson.