num_pages: 208
description: This is a nostalgic visual account of the best time and place to be a graffiti writer. In the 1980s brothers Kenny a.k.a. KEY and Paul a.k.a. CAVS immersed themselves in the graffiti scene in the Boogie Down Bronx dutifully photographing hundreds of pieces on now-discontinued MTA subway cars and capturing their proud comrades before during and after the act. Bombing White Elephants with their pilot markers and documenting them with their cameras which they always carried they were on the ride of their livesuntil 1989 when the last painted train was removed from service. Tags by names like QUIK IZTHEWIZ and many others appear here in color exposures and dozens of artists share stories and drop knowledge with no filter. A foreword by graffiti historian Henry Chalfant coproducer of Style Wars the seminal documentary on New York graffiti and hip-hop culturekicks things off.
language: English
title: From the Platform 2: More NYC Subway Graffiti, 1983–1989
publisher: Schiffer