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Photo: Martha Cooper. FAB 5 FREDDY: When I first started seeing graffiti in Brooklyn, in the early 1970s, I would see it on the A train, which ran from Far Rockaway, Queens, through the center of Brooklyn, all the way up to Washington Heights, in Manhattan.
21 sty 2022 · The term is borrowed from the New York subway generation and the legendary “Writers Bench,” a subway station on 149th Street where writers congregated to exchange stories and critique graffiti from several different lines as they rolled through the station.
Documentation of New York City subway graffiti history. Featuring graffiti artist biographies, interviews and artwork.
An overpass connecting the uptown and downtown platforms was an ideal vantage point from which to view the passing trains. Since paintings rarely if ever run on trains today, this bench is no longer frequented by writers.
The bench at 149th St. and Grand Concourse is one spot where graffiti writers would gather and watch trains in the 70's and 80's when graffiti ran on the subway trains in New York.
So he began taking the train to the Bronx, where the city's most notorious graffiti makers, known among themselves as writers, gathered. There was one particular bench at the back of the...
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.
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