In 1984, photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant captured theimagination of a generation with Subway Art, a groundbreaking bookdocumenting the work of graffiti writers who illegally painted subway cars inNewYork City. 25 years on, the graffiti subculture it chronicled has blossomedinto a global art movement, and Subway Art has become the most influentialbook ever to be published in the genre. Now ? with over half a million copiessold worldwide ? the bible of the international street-art movement is back.A new large-format layout heightens the impact of Henry Chalfant?s imagesof the trains, and lets Martha Cooper?s narrative pictures tell the story. In newintroductions, the authors recall how they gained entry to the NewYork graffiticommunity in the 1970s and 1980s and describe the techniques that theyused to photograph it. New afterwords report how the lives of the originalsubway artists have unfolded, and chronicle the end of the subway graffitiscene in the late 1980s and its unexpected rebirth as a global art movement.The 25th Anniversary Edition is an essential book for all fans of graffiti,stunning photography and 1980s-cool.

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