Throwback Thursday: New York After Dark - Classic 1980’s Street Photography

This article was posted by VaporsIgnite 9 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 23 hours, 46 minutes ago.

Easy, Jon one, Sin one, Penn, and Super Master in Harlem 1986

Nycisdead106 has posted these classic shots of 1980’s NYC by Matt Weber in the New York City thread in the Writers Forum. If you look close enough you’ll notice tags from some legendary street bombing greats like Joz, Easy, Tekay, JA, Sand, Jon One, and Zephyr. New York is clearly a different city these days and it is nice to step in the time machine and see the graffiti world as it was on an average street with these great photos. You can click each of the photos to view larger. Enjoy.

Joz, Tekay, Ja, Sand, Times Square 1989

Zephyr and others, 1986

Tags:: Classic NYC,; Graffiti,; Photography,; times square,; harlem,; Street Photography,; Black and White Photography,; 1980s,; new york city,

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