Graff related help needed
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- Horp
In the book 'Subway Art' by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfont, there is a photograph of one of the earliest peices of decorative, multi colour subway art accompanying a stroy about how The New York Times ran a competition in the very early days, to give a prize to the person who could do the most decorative piece. Its a really crude piece, obviously, as it was at the very conception of the art form, and all I can remember about it is that it has some think bubble letters with (possibly pink) sprayed dots around it. Its on a train door I believe.
Can anyone remember seeing that and if so can you tell me who it was by, what it said... anything to help me google an image as I don;t have a copy of the book to hand.
if anyone DOES have the book to hand I'd really appreciate it if you could have a quick gander and tell me what the pinks ays. Its something simple like TAKI 182 but its not a Taki piece its someone else.
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All help gertly oprecialated.
- Horp0
Stroy = story
'think bubble letters' = thin bubble letters
- Horp0
Cheers for that Utopian. Its not a Dondi piece though, its much more primitive. Its really pre-graf. Like the first time someone decided to take three cans on the train instead of one, but had no cultural parameters shaping what they did. Its literally some crudely shaped letters and pink blobs round it. Proto-graf.
No matter though... I'll have to dig my copy out tonight and look it up. I might be able to find other super-proto examples somewhere but I wanted to use this particular one because its really the best example of when a single-celled idea started to evolve into a very basic multi-cellular ancestor of modern graf.
- derm0
- Horp0
YAY! This is it!
Thank you Gitale. I was going to post the image here but I'm on a stupid fucking stupid PC fucking piece of shit that wont let me.
- Horp0
Oh, you posted it too!
Yeah, that was exactly the piece I was thinking of. Looks different to how I remembered it. I thought it was inside the train, and had pink dots, but 99.9% sure that was the piece bugging my brain.
Thanks for your help QBN people, and thanks Gitale for nailing it.
= )
- welcome... i own both books and i dont know how many times i looked at all the images in them :-Pd_gitale
- d_gitale0
if you are looking for the old old school, this thread is full of treasures:
http://www.12ozprophet.com/forum…
- d_gitale0
mystery solved... thanks noel
- Horp0
Actually, I only just saw Noel's post and actually it was the Spin piece I was thinking of. Both work actually, but in mind it was the Spin one.
Thanks Noel!