Martha cooper
Martha cooper is the only current
female photographer focusing on the
urban underground graffiti art scene. Martha is from the USA Baltimore. Martha Became very interested in the urban
world of graffiti when she returned from her studies and took pictures of
people in and around her a neighbourhood. Is was here where she meet with a fellow
neighbour who enlightened her of the world of graffiti and showed Martha the spot where some tagging
took place. Growing increasingly interested with the more information she was
being fed Martha asked to contact the ‘graffiti king’. After a while Martha was
allowed to be introduced to the graffiti king Dundi. After building some trust
Dundi allowed Martha to tour with him and photograph some of his ‘tagging’.
According to Martha Coopers book ‘Subway art’ shows Martha saying, "We may
have lost the trains...". by
this i get the feeling she means so much art work has been plastered over
trains that the trains have lost the identity of being actual trains and are
now just art. A response to this comment was made by Henry Chalfont saying "...but we've gained the whole
world." Below are some pictures illustrating some of the work Cooper
photographed throughout her career.
http://www.urbanartcore.eu/top-urban-art-photographers/
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