Now in her sixties, Martha Cooper began shooting graffiti over twenty five years ago. A true veteran in the hip hop photo world, she is still documenting and searching for her next discovery. If folks like Martha Cooper weren’t taking shots of pieces back in the day there would little or no record of such graf greats as Dondi, Iz the Wiz, Seen, Blade, Zephyr, and Lee. Check out the interview with Martha from CurrenTV below, and The Hip-Hop Files from a previous post.
Books by Martha Cooper
Subway Art, Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant, 1984
R.I.P.: New York Spraycan Memorials, 1994
Hip Hop Files: Photographs 1979-1984, 2004
Street Play, 2005
We B*Girlz, text by Nika Kramer, 2005
New York State of Mind', 2007
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