July 9, 2012
Wrong place, wrong time is a predicament photographer, Jonas Lara is all too familiar with. Artists have always been considered among the “bottom of the rung” on society’s ladder. Beethoven and Van Gogh were considered eccentric and outcasts of society, but graffiti artists get backlash and then some…and their wrap is getting grimmer. In many [...]
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July 27, 2011
From Audubon and Amsterdam Ave., NYC to now: How fitting is it that the earliest graffiti etchings can be traced all the way back to ancient Greece, the word “graffiti” comes from the Greek word “graphein” which means “to write” and that one of the greatest graffiti writers in the world is a kid from [...]
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