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Training Days

The Subway Artists Then and Now

By: Henry Chalfant, Sacha Jenkins

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Hardcover | 8 September 2014 | Edition Number 1

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176 Pages

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21.5 x 1.8 x 51.0

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In the late 1970s, New York City was bankrupt, dirty and dangerous. Born on these grimy streets, graffiti rapidly made its mark. Here, twelve legendary graffiti writers – the original subway artists whose creative genius fuelled the earliest flowering of the movement – give first-person accounts of their experiences. Individually interviewed for this book by Sacha Jenkins, they reveal an authentic, unparalleled insight into the golden age of graffiti. Illustrated with Henry Chalfant’s original photographs, this book captures all the raw, explosive creativity of that era.

About the Author

Henry Chalfant’s world-renowned documentation of the artists of the New York subway was memorialized in the most successful book on graffiti ever published, Subway Art (Thames & Hudson, 1984).

Sacha Jenkins is a former New York graffiti writer turned journalist whose books include the Piecebook series of graffiti drawings. He is the co-founder of the seminal hip-hop magazine ego trip, as well as co-author of the best-selling biography of Eminem, The Way I Am (2009).

Industry Reviews

'Lively stories excitingly told ... a thorough account that avoids the trap of being over-academic' - Art Book Review

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