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From the platform 2 : more NYC subway graffiti, 1983-1989

Cavalieri, Paul, photographer, compiler, Cavalieri, Kenny, photographer, compiler, Chalfant, Henry, writer of foreword

Overview

This is a nostalgic, visual account of the best time and place to be a graffiti writer. In the 1980s, brothers Kenny, a.k.a. KEY, and Paul, a.k.a. 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. Bombing White Elephants with their pilot markers and documenting them with their cameras, which they always carried, they were on the ride of their livesuntil 1989, when the last painted train was removed from service. 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. A foreword by graffiti historian Henry Chalfant, coproducer of Style Warsthe seminal documentary on New York graffiti and hip-hop culturekicks things off.

• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
• Subject: Graffiti New York (State) New York. / Graffiti artists New York (State) New York. / Subways in art.
• ISBN: 9780764352904, 0764352903

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GT3913.N72 C383 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE