Published: December 14, 2012
Subway Graffiti in the Digital Age
New York City didn’t have much money in the 1970s, but there was no shortage of creativity in the hardest-hit parts of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan, not all of it legal. At night — armed with attitude and stolen cans of spray paint — armies of young people ran through train yards, covering entire subway cars with murals and tags. Few have followed that urban art burst as closely as Henry Chalfant, a photographer and filmmaker who started documenting these rolling canvasses in 1976. — TEXT by DAVID GONZALEZ
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