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Tags, Stickers and Everything in Between: Martha Cooper’s 50-Year Career Photographing Graffiti

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In the 1970s Martha Cooper was photographing children on the Lower East Side for the New York Post when she first discovered graffiti:  “You would see a bunch of legible but unintelligible letters on the wall…I found out it was kids’ names.” That revelation began a 50-year obsession for Cooper who started meeting…