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Striking art portrait, analog photo, film grain. Depicts a female figure with vibrant white hair, intense gaze, natural face without make-up, impure skin, detailed skin with freckles, beautifully imperfect. Photographed by Martha Cooper. Martha Cooper is an American photojournalist from Baltimore most famous for her documentation of New York subway tagging in the 80’s and the birth of street art. Her work is the most extensive and significant of its kind. In 1979 she met graffiti writer HE3, who took the photographer inside New York’s growing graffiti scene. Cooper met Dondi, one of the biggest stars of graffiti. Then she began following the sprayers on their subway tours and photographing everything, since she wanted to document the paintings within their full context. This led her to release her most famous work Subway Art, a portfolio of graffiti tagging in the 80’s. The book was released in collaboration with Henry Chalfant, who is also a graffiti photographer. Beside Subway art, Martha Cooper released the books: Hip Hop Files, R.I.P. New York Spraycan Memorials and From Here to Fame.