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Subway Art

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Subway Art
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Martha Cooper
By (author) Henry Chalfant
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:128
Dimensions(mm): Height 335,Width 234
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1960 to now
Graffiti and street art
ISBN/Barcode 9780500292129
ClassificationsDewey:751.73097471
Audience
General
Illustrations 153 Illustrations, color

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 21 September 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In 1984, the groundbreaking Subway Art brought graffiti to the world. 30 years on, the bible of the street-art movement is back and better than ever. * With over 70 fresh photographs not included in the original edition. * In new introductions Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant recall how they gained entry to the New York City graffiti community in the 1970s and 1980s. * New afterwords continue the story from the decline of the subway graffiti scene in the late 1980s to its unexpected rebirth as a global art movement. * The authors bring us up to date on how the lives of the original subway artists have unfolded, and mourn the loss of several writers to the darker forces of the street.

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

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