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Documentation of New York City subway graffiti history. Featuring graffiti artist biographies, interviews and artwork.
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 to...
As single hits gave way to piecing, Phase 2 emerged as the leading stylist of his day; perhaps more importantly, he handed out styles to hundreds of writers at the bench at 149th street, making the entire subway movement look better then it was.
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.
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...
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 ...
Graffiti began appearing around New York City with the words "Bird Lives" [1] but after that, it took about a decade and a half for graffiti to become noticeable in NYC. So, around 1970 or 1971, TAKI 183 and Tracy 168 started to gain notoriety for their frequent vandalism. [2] Using a naming convention in which they would add their street number to their nickname, they "bombed" a train with ...
