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An individual who takes photographs of graffiti. The term originated in New York when graffiti writers and non-graffiti writers would sit on benches at train stations waiting for the trains to go by to take pictures and admire graffiti. black book [needs copy edit] A graffiti artist's sketchbook, which is also
Black book, a slang term for a graffiti artist's notebook or sketchbook; Black books, records of Lincoln's Inn, a barristers association in London; The Black Book
Leon IV began writing graffiti in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1995, at the age of 15.He was attracted to the traditional uses of spray paint, markers, wildstyle lettering and black-book culture as first developed by graffiti writers in Philadelphia and New York City a quarter of a century earlier.
Jean-Michel Basquiat (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl baskja]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
Graffiti with a Nazi swastika and 14/88 on a wall in Elektrostal, Moscow, Russia Graffiti with 1488 and an obscure message on a wall in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Russia "The Fourteen Words" (also abbreviated 14 or 1488) is a reference to two slogans originated by the American domestic terrorist David Eden Lane, [1] [2] one of nine founding members of the defunct white supremacist terrorist ...
The French anarchist paper Le Drapeau Noir (The Black Flag), which printed its first issue in August 1883, [11] is one of the first published references to use black as an anarchist color. Black International was the name of a London-based British anarchist group founded in July 1881.
Michael Jerome Stewart (May 9, 1958 [1] – September 28, 1983) was an African-American man who received recognition after his death following an arrest by New York City Transit Police for writing graffiti in soft-tip marker or using an aerosol can on a New York City Subway wall at the First Avenue station. [2]
The tags of graffiti artists Daze and Zephyr are on the artwork. [6] While Stewart was still in a coma, artist David Wojnarowicz created a flyer for a rally protesting Stewart's then "near-murder" in Union Square on September 26, 1983. [7] The flyer portrays the officers with skeletal faces beating a handcuffed black man with batons.