80 S New York Subway Graffiti

Courtesy eric firestone gallery new york.

80 s new york subway graffiti. One of the walking graffiti legends of the 80 s is absolutely futura2000. A new book of photography from the platform 2. Bbus129 by dondi on a new york city subway car 1984 graffiti in new york city has had a substantial role in the rise of property crimes at the local national and international scale. In just about every movie set in new york city in the 1970s and 80s there 39 s an establishing shot with a graffiti covered subway.

New york subway 1976 1984 1990 graffiti and all complete version part silent movie duration. New york subway graffiti in the 70 s and 80 s part2 duration. Starting out as a writer on subway cars in the early 70s futura made a break and a comeback later in the decade allowing his art to flourish in the coming years. A new exhibition at the bronx museum shows the striking documentary photography of henry chalfant who documented the street art and urban culture in new.

Graffiti history street art graffiti american graffiti train truck wildstyle nyc subway art hoe public art city in 1984 the book subway art by martha cooper and henry chalfant was released. It documented new york s early 1980s graffiti scene and its impact was. May 13 2016 explore qiu001 s board 80 s nyc subway graffiti on pinterest. Its authors paul and kenny cavalieri are two brothers from the bronx who began.

See more ideas about nyc subway nyc subway. Eventually those smaller crimes led to bigger ones and by the 1980s over 250 felonies were committed every week on the subway. More nyc subway graffiti 1983 1989 is an ode to that period.