Henry Chalfant – 1980

Henry Chalfant is best known for co-publishing SUBWAY ART. By participating with his platform collage shots he perfectly balanced the more staged cityscape photographs by Martha Cooper and made the book an iconic classic. With a background as an artist he seemingly wanted to capture the details of the works writers back then executed on the subway train cars of New York City.

1980 is an exhibition catalogue in which Henry Chalfant’s style of documenting pieces in traffic is able to enjoy in the best way possible: The panorama format hardcover comes with an open spine binding that allows to lay flat the book and take a look at legendary works in large scale. DONDI’s Children of the Grave wholecar, SEEN’s Hand of Doom concept masterpiece, or the JOHN LENNON – THE BEATLES double wholecar by LADY PINK, IZ THE WIZ and MARE – finally these works can be experienced in detail.

The 82-paged book opens with texts by Carlo McCormick, Fab 5 Freddy, Jayson Edlin, Lee Quiñones and the photographer himself. It features famous and lesser known pieces by BILROCK, BLADE, BRIM, BUS, CIA, COMET, CRASH, DAZE, DONDI, DURO, FUTURA2000, IZ THE WIZ, KASE2, KEL, KID, LADY PINK, LEE, MAD, MARE, NOC167, PART, PJAY, QUIK, REVOLT, SADE, SEEN, SHY147, SKEME, TKID, TRACY168, ZEPHYR and more.
We were able to import this hard to find publication to Europe in a limited number so don’t sleep on it and add this classic to your collection!

82 pages, 30,4 cm x 22,8 cm, hardcover with open binding, different papers
Release date: August 2017
ISBN: 978-87-85227-01-0
Publisher: Eric Firestone Press 

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