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Subway Art Goes Digital
Subway Art is one of the most definitive books detailing and popularizing NYC graffiti history. Published back in 1988 1984, it features the photos of legendary graffiti documenters Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant. While Faith of Graffiti took a first crack at the newly emerging art form in the 70’s, Subway Art focused specifically on the masterpieces that were painted on the subway cars during graffiti’s heyday in the early 80’s. Some of have described it as the print version of classic graffiti cult documentary Style Wars—which Chalfant also worked on. While we of course would urge you to get yourself a physical copy, feel free to peruse this digital version from cover to cover.
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woah, this is the best thing ever.
Comment by eskay — March 12, 2008 #
it was first published in …1984 not 88.
Comment by writer — March 13, 2008 #