Martha Cooper

For the first lady of Ohio, see Martha Kinney Cooper.
Martha Cooper
Cooper at the Urban Discipline exhibition in Hamburg, Germany, 2001.[1]
Born1943 (age 80–81)
Baltimore
Alma mater
Known forPhotography
Notable workSubway Art
Movement
Websitewww.kodakgirl.com

Martha Cooper (born 1943) is an American photojournalist. She worked as a staff photographer for the New York Post during the 1970s.[2] She is best known for documenting the New York City graffiti scene of the 1970s and 1980s.[3][4]

In 1984, Cooper and Henry Chalfant published their photographs of New York City graffiti in the book Subway Art, which has been called the graffiti bible[2][5] and, by 2009, had sold half a million copies.[5]

  1. ^ Reisser, Mirko; Peters, Gerrit; Zahlmann, Heiko, eds. (2001). Urban Discipline 2001: Graffiti-Art. Urban Discipline: Graffiti-Art (in English and German). Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Hamburg (Germany): getting-up. p. 104. ISBN 3-00-007960-2.
  2. ^ a b Bachor, Kenneth (20 April 2017). "Preserving New York's History of Graffiti Art". Time. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  3. ^ Andrea Kurland, "Martha Cooper: The photographer who introduced graffiti to the world: Creative Decay". Huck (magazine), 9 December 2016. Accessed 2 March 2018.
  4. ^ Amy Newson, "The woman who captured NYC’s graffiti gangs". Dazed, 4 February 2016. Accessed 2 March 2018.
  5. ^ a b Graustark, Barbara (10 April 2009). "Chronicler of the Furtive Arts". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 March 2018.