This is a nostalgic, visual account of the best time and place to be a Graffiti writer.
A foreword by Graffiti historian Henry Chalfant, coproducer of Style Wars--the seminal documentary on New York Graffiti and hip-hop culture--kicks things off..
Tags by names like QUIK, IZTHEWIZ, and many others appear here in color exposures, and dozens of artists share stories and drop knowledge with no filter. ``Bombing`` ``White Elephants`` with their pilot markers and documenting them with their cameras, which they always carried, they were on the ride of their lives--until 1989, when the last painted train was removed From service.
CAVS, immersed themselves in the Graffiti scene in the Boogie Down Bronx, dutifully photographing hundreds of pieces on now-discontinued MTA Subway cars and capturing their proud comrades before, during, and after the act. k.a.
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In the 1980s, brothers Kenny, a.
This is a nostalgic, visual account of the best time and place to be a Graffiti writer
