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Training Days
The Subway Artists Then and Now
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This book is ideal for enthusiasts of urban culture, graffiti art, and 1970s New York history, as well as readers interested in authentic artist testimonies.
Henry Chalfant’s photographs in the classic Subway Art inspired graffiti writers around the world; now read the stories behind those iconic images in the words of the pioneers of the graffiti movement in the late 1970s – early 1980s.
The story of the birth of the New York subway graffiti movement in the words of the legendary graffiti artists who were at the heart of the scene
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Here are authentic first-person accounts from the graffiti writers and artists whose creative genius fuelled the earliest flowering of the movement in late 1970s and early 1980s New York. Henry Chalfant's photographs in Subway Art inspired budding graffiti writers around the world; now read the stories behind those iconic images in the words of the pioneers of the graffiti movement.
In the late 1970s, New York City was bankrupt, dirty and dangerous. Born on these grimy streets, graffiti rapidly made its mark. Here, twelve legendary graffiti writers - Bil Rock, Breezer, Daze, Jon One, Kel, KR, Lady Pink, Sak, Sharp, Skeme, Spin and Team - give first-person accounts of their experiences. Individually interviewed for this book by Sacha Jenkins, they reveal an authentic, unparalleled insight into the golden age of graffiti.
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Art Book Review praises the book as "lively stories excitingly told" and notes it as "a thorough account that avoids the trap of being over-academic."
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ISBN: 9780500239216
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 08 September 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Illustration: 5 Illustrations, black and white; 133 Illustrations, color
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 160.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 520g
Pages: 176
About the Author
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. Sacha Jenkins is a former New York graffiti writer turned journalist whose books include the Piecebook series of graffiti drawings. He is the co-founder of the seminal hip-hop magazine ego trip, as well as co-author of the best-selling biography of Eminem, The Way I Am.
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