Hip Hop Files: Photographs 1979-1984

Cooper, Martha

ISBN 10: 3937946004 / ISBN 13: 9783937946009

Published by From Here to Fame, New York, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hip Hop Files: Photographs 1979-1984
• Publisher: From Here to Fame, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3937946004
• ISBN 13: 9783937946009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Cooper, Martha
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Illustrator(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Collects photographs taken in New York during the early days of hip hop featuring graffiti, break dancing, musicians, and other aspects of the emerging art form, and offers commentary from interviews with the photographer and the subjects.

About the Author

Martha Cooper is a photographer who has specialized in shooting urban vernacular art and architecture for twenty-five years. Her first book Subway Art (Thames & Hudson,1984), a legendary collaboration with Henry Chalfant, is still in print after 20 years. Martha s photos have been widely exhibited in museums and galleries and published in innumerable magazines from National Geographic to Vibe.