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Carlos Rodriguez, better known as Mare139, is a New York-based artist born in 1965 in Spanish Harlem, New York City.He was best known as the subway graffiti writer Mare 139, and has since adapted the graffiti lettering styles to metal sculpture in the fine art context, and is recognized as a media artist for his creation of graffiti-art-related websites.
In 1971, Diaz was first introduced to the burgeoning graffiti culture by his older cousin Gilberto "SIETE" Diaz when he was just 12 years old. [4] His cousin lived in Washington Heights, which was a locus of graffiti production at the time, and taught Diaz about the traditional style of writing graffiti: combining a moniker, or nickname, with a number. [6]
Eric Haze was born in 1961 in New York City to progressive parents of the Upper West Side. [1] [2] Haze was drawn to art through his father's friend's pop art collection and meeting Elaine de Kooning who gave Haze oil paints while she painted a portrait of Haze and his sister in 1971.
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
Jon Naar (May 5, 1920 – November 30, 2017) was an English-American author and photographer celebrated for his pioneering images of New York City graffiti in the 1970s, and for portraits of Andy Warhol and other celebrities, including the British Prime Minister.
Darryl McCray (born 1953), better known by his tagging name Cornbread, is an American graffiti writer from Philadelphia. He is widely considered one of the world's first modern graffiti artist. [1] [2] [3] McCray was raised in Brewerytown, a neighborhood of North Philadelphia.
Hanif Kureshi (12 October 1982 – 22 September 2024), also known by the graffiti name Daku, was an Indian artist, designer, and advertising professional.Kureshi was a pioneering figure in India's street art movement, helping to transform urban spaces into public canvases and bringing art out of the museums to the wider public in India.
[4] [6] [7] Working under the name 'Espo', he painted throughout the city becoming known during the late 1990s for his thematic graffiti 'pieces', for On the Go magazine, and for his 1999 book The Art of Getting Over, which placed stories told by other graffiti writers alongside photos of their work.