Martha Cooper is one of the first photographers to closely document Hip Hop culture in New York. Since the start of the 80s, she has photographed it in all its forms: the portrait of artists now icons, break dancers, young people in trainers yielding ghetto blasters on their shoulders, but above all works by graffiti artists on subway trains, bridges and walls in the city. This is a rare documentation about the emergence of a movement whose aesthetics marked the end of the 20th century.
The series Subway Art is presented in an underpass appreciated by graffiti artists and taggers active in the region.
Subway Art, de Martha Cooper
Festival Images 2014
Until October 5th, 2014
Sous-voies CFF est
Vevey, Switzerland
