Blade
1980
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View on museum website →Medium
4 chromogenic prints
Dimensions
image/sheet: 13.97 × 73.66 cm (5 1/2 × 29 in.) mount: 24.5 × 85.5 cm (9 5/8 × 33 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Samuel A. and Sandra Esses)
Accession Number
2015.19.4909
About the Artist
Henry Chalfant
Henry Chalfant is an American artist and documentarian best known for his pioneering photographic documentation of New York City's graffiti and hip-hop culture during the late 1970s and 1980s. Working with a large-format camera along the elevated subway lines of the Bronx and Brooklyn, he produced a systematic and respectful visual archive of the painted subway cars that became one of the defining...