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Hall of Fame

By Mariduena, Alain KET

Hall of Fame Photography

Hall of Fame

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Description
The birthplace of the style writing school of graffiti is New York City. This is the place where young writers first began to transform letters from simple tags on a wall to elaborate masterpieces of colorful and camoflauged letters embellished with characters that depicted friends and heroes alike. By the 1980s the artwork was quickly destroyed by authorities and the artists seeking to preserve some of their works took hold of schoolyards around the city to paint grander works. It was a no-nonsense approach to save their art form and spread their fame to the local kids. The most famous of these schoolyards is located in East Harlem on 106th street and Park Avenue and it became known as the Hall of Fame. At first the Hall of Fame was established to bring together the best artists in the city and have them paint in the same schoolyard supplanting the number 5 train as the showcase place for the best graffiti art in New York. Over the years as the word spread artists from around the city would sneak in and leave their work at night in this unsanctioned museum. Join us on this artistic retrospective of the famous and important New York landmark.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
221
Release Date:
2012-09-28
Publication Date:
2012-08-31
Publisher:
FROM HERE TO FAME PUBL.
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3937946365
ISBN13:
9783937946368
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Maximum Reading Age:
101
Weight:
703 g
Height:
16 cm
Width:
23.5 cm
Thickness:
2 cm
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