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In the early 1990's freight trains coming out of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and LA were traveling with graffiti and were being spotted in cities and towns across the country. The film Benching: The Art of Watching Trains explores how this subculture, Benching, transitioned from subway platform's to random freight benches across the country.
14 gru 2012 · Mr. Chalfant didn’t meet any actual graffiti writers until 1979, when someone told him about the Writer’s Bench, inside the lower level of the 149th Street and Grand Concourse station. Though...
Documentation of New York City subway graffiti history. Featuring graffiti artist biographies, interviews and artwork.
For his third exhibition at Speerstra Gallery Paris, Henry Chalfant presents the exhibition “1980”. The year 1980 marks the beginning of the golden age of graffiti on New York’s metro trains. Twenty photographs in a exceptional format of trains will be exhibited on the white walls of the gallery.
It’s 1982 and the 149th Street-Grand Concourse station in the Bronx is teeming with teenagers scribbling in notebooks. They call themselves writers but they are really artists working across...
FAB 5 FREDDY: By the late 1970s, every square inch of practically every subway train in New York City, almost every station, was completely blitzed with graffiti—along with buses, trucks, walls. At this time, I was also following the developing punk and New Wave movements and the excitement around bands like the Clash and the Sex Pistols in ...
9 gru 2007 · BEGINNING in the 1970s, city kids swept up in the new trend of scribbling graffiti on the outside of subway cars gathered on a bench in the 149th Street-Grand Concourse station in the Bronx...
