Sunday, April 12, 2009

The woman who "captured graffiti’s golden and assaultive years"



The Times has a feature on Martha Cooper, the photographer who captured the prolific NYC graffiti artists of the 1970s-1980s. As the paper notes, her 1984 book “Subway Art,” created with Henry Chalfant, a photographer and filmmaker, "captured graffiti’s golden and assaultive years."

The above photo from 1980 by Cooper at the East 180th Street subway platform in the Bronx.

2 comments:

Melanie said...

I have always loved the graffiti artists.

Mykola Dementiuk said...

What a nice word 'assaultive'...You never hear it.