This book chronicles the work of graffiti artists who painted subway cars in New York City, detailing their lives and the decline of the subway graffiti scene in the late 1980s, as well as its surprising resurgence as a global art movement.
Martha Cooper Libri
1 gennaio 1943
Quest'autrice è forse meglio conosciuta per la sua documentazione della scena dei graffiti di New York negli anni '70 e '80. Il suo lavoro fotografico personale iniziò mentre lavorava al New York Post, portandola a immortalare bambini nel suo quartiere. Un giovane di nome Edwin la introdusse al mondo dei graffiti, spiegandoglieli come una forma d'arte che utilizza soprannomi d'artista. Il suo accesso ad artisti come Dondi, che le permise di fotografarlo mentre creava graffiti, la immerse nella documentazione di questa sottocultura, culminando nel libro Subway Art. Il suo background artistico e antropologico informa la sua prospettiva unica sulla cultura urbana e le sue espressioni visive.
Street Play. New York's Alphabet City In The 70s
- 121pagine
- 5 ore di lettura
From the archives of the bestselling photographer of Subway Art and Hip Hop Files comes this fantastic, previously unpublished collection of images from 1970s New York. Street Play captures the creative spirit of city kids making the best of their harsh environment, reflecting a transitional time before the Lower East Side's art scene emerged.
Presents a pictorial look at women break dancers known as the B*Girlz.
In 1970, as a young photographer, Martha Cooper moved from the USA to Tokyo and became fascinated with Irezumi, the art of Japanese tattooing. Searching for an artist, she found Horibun I, a respected master working in the traditional Okachimachi District of Tokyo. Forbidden in Japan for nearly 80 years, Irezumi in 1970 was an art form strictly for those in the know. For some months Horibun I allowed Cooper to follow and photograph him working. The photos, untouched for 40 years, have finally found their way into a book that tells both the story of Irezumi in 1970, and of Martha Cooper's first adventure into a subculture--Publisher's description.
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– Collector’s Edition
Hip Hop Files
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Martha Cooper hat den Ruf, die erste und wichtigste Fotografin der entstehenden Hip Hop Kultur in New York zu sein. Hip Hop Files—Photographs 1979-1984 macht mit vielen, zum Teil unveröffentlichten Fotos, einen bedeutenden Teil ihres umfangreichen und einzigartigen Archivs zugänglich. Das Buch dokumentiert die Anfänge des Phänomens, das heute als Hip Hop bekannt ist. In den frühen 80ern wurde diese Kultur durch Veröffentlichungen ihrer Fotos in den Vereinigten Staaten, Asien und in Europa verbreitet. Von 1999 bis 2003 machte Akim Walta aka ZEB. ROC. SKI, bekannter deutscher Hip Hop Aktivist und Labelchef von MZEE Records, die Akteure ausfindig, die Gegenstand von Martha Coopers Aufnahmen waren, und führte zahlreiche Interviews. Die Fotos werden begleitet von informativen Texten und bildbegleitenden Zitaten von über 70 Protagonisten, darunter Hip Hop Ikonen wie: LEE, FAB 5 FREDDY, ROCK STEADY CREW, DONDI, BOBBITO, DEZ aka DJ KAY SLAY, RUN DMC, SEEN, AFRIKA BAMBAATAA, BLADE, RAMMELLZEE, FUTURA 2000, GRANDMASTER CAZ, DURO, LADY PINK und viele andere.
Hip Hop Files. Photographs 1979-1984
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura