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No other Graffiti crew from New York City’s graffiti heyday conjures up more images of angel dust smoking, beer drinking white boys than does the Bronx born and bred writing group MPC.
Starting in 1977 when founding members Colt and Slip started the crew, this account continues with how Cap 1 took over and led the crew down its unforgettable path in the 1980’s. As documented in 1983’s PBS movie Style Wars. Also portrayed as the character (Spit) in 1984’s movie genre classic Beat Street.
With a penchant for going to war for train space and territory, which in turn led to the largest city-wide cross out campaign. The MPC was known as everything from a bunch of thugs who beat, hung, and shot perceived rivals to a group of talentless toys.
Wrapped up in this raw tell all about the bad boys of New York City Graffiti, chronicles the crew’s passion for graffiti, along with the real life challenges its young members faced in their urban environment. The MPC Crew from The Bronx, N.Y defining the word "street" in Street Art since 1977.
Morris Park Crew The Official History available at Schiffer.
These are not just pictures, they are archives: Keith Baugh published "Early subway graffiti 1973-1975", a book containing hundreds of pictures of the New York subway in the early 1970s.
We did not expect, but here it is: "Early subway graffiti 1973-1975" brings over 200 pictures, on the eve of the explosion of graffiti in New York and in the rest of the world. In other words, this book is amazing for eyes and knowledge.
When he arrived in New York, Keith Baugh, British painter and photographer, was faced with first graffitis and tags on the subway. As a revelation, he started to capture each piece from Harlem to the South Bronx, then to Times Square and Coney Island. It was in 1973, the graffiti movement was born and Keith Baugh saw a new creative power to immortalize.
36 years after his stay in New York, he offers us a new evidence that sheds light on the first generation of New York graffiti artists, with among others Ale One, All Jive, Ben 3YB, Billy, Blade, Bug, Cash, Chico, Cliff, Comet, Crachee, Death, Doc Cool, Hondo, Hysen, In, Jet, Jump, King, Kool Kevin, Lava, Lefty, Mono, Nod, Phase 2, Priest, Riff, Roach, Ruben118, Silver Tips, Sin, Sky, Sly, Spenser, Staff 161, Stay High, Stim One, Super Strut, Tracy 168, Vamm, Worm et Yaz.
The photographer said he has developed this book to show the creative, artistic, and social history of graffiti movement.
This is done, the legendary Subway Art by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant has now a little brother.
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