Martha Cooper: Spray Nation: 1980s NYC Graffiti Photographs christopherwilliams newspaper columns or astrological interpretations

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Martha Cooper: Spray Nation: 1980s NYC Graffiti Photographs christopherwilliams newspaper columns or astrological interpretationsPrestel, 2022, Hardback, 288 pages, 30. 48 x 20. 02 cm If you were a graffiti writer in 1980s New York City, you wanted Martha Cooper to document your workand she probably did. Cooper has spent decades immortalizing art that is often overlooked, and usually illegal. Her first book, 1984s Subway Art (a collaboration with Henry Chalfant), is affectionately referred to by graffiti artists as the bible. To create Spray Nation, Cooper and editor Roger