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Graffiti began appearing around New York City with the words "Bird Lives" [ 1] but after that, it took about a decade and a half for graffiti to become noticeable in NYC. So, around 1970 or 1971, TAKI 183 and Tracy 168 started to gain notoriety for their frequent vandalism. [ 2] Using a naming convention in which they would add their street ...
Martha Cooper (born 1943) is an American photojournalist. She worked as a staff photographer for the New York Post during the 1970s. [ 2] She is best known for documenting the New York City graffiti scene of the 1970s and 1980s. [ 3][ 4] In 1984, Cooper and Henry Chalfant published their photographs of New York City graffiti in the book Subway ...
Box office. $16.6 million. Beat Street is a 1984 American dance drama film featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s. Set in the South Bronx, the film follows the lives of a pair of brothers and their group of friends, all of whom are devoted to various elements of early hip hop culture, including breakdancing, DJing and graffiti.
IZ was prominently featured in the 1983 documentary Style Wars. [8] His work, which appeared in the book Subway Art, has been credited with inspiring European graffiti in particular; Martin's piece Hell IZ for Children became influential in Europe where the use of his tag to form a sentence and his freeform style has been incorporated and adapted by contemporary graffiti artists.
1984. Publication place. London, England. Pages. 100. ISBN. 978-0805006780. Subway Art is a collaborative book by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant, which documents the early history of the New York City graffiti movement. Originally published in 1984, the book has been described as a "landmark photographic history".
Darryl McCray (born 1953), better known by his tagging name Cornbread, is an American graffiti writer from Philadelphia. He is widely considered the world's first modern graffiti artist. [ 1][ 2][ 3] McCray was raised in Brewerytown, a neighborhood of North Philadelphia. During the late 1960s, he and a group of friends started doing graffiti in ...
Andre Pierre Charles (born 1968) is an American artist born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in the Bronx. [1] Charles is best known as a 1980s pioneer of the New York City graffiti art movement and for his influence on New York City nightclub and youth culture.
Movement. Pop art. street art. Website. www .haring .com. Signature. Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. [ 1] His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". [ 2]