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Edwin "HE" with His "Piece Book" of Graffiti Designs and Completed Wall, New York, NY
Edwin "HE" with His "Piece Book" of Graffiti Designs and Completed Wall, New York, NY

Edwin "HE" with His "Piece Book" of Graffiti Designs and Completed Wall, New York, NY

Photographer Martha Cooper
Visual image Edwin "HE"
Datec. 1979
Mediumpaper (fiber product)
DimensionsSheet: 10 15/16 × 11 15/16 in. (27.781 × 30.321 cm)
Image: 6 7/8 × 10 1/8 in. (17.463 × 25.718 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number1999.132.3
Text Entries

Martha Cooper (b. 1940) is a photojournalist from Baltimore, Maryland. She worked as a staff photographer for the New York Post in the 1970s. She is best known for documenting the New York City graffiti scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

Edwin “HE” is an 80s graffiti artist.

Landscape photograph of Edwin’s “HE” as he poses on the corner holding a book in front of his “HE” graffiti work. The photograph was shot by Martha Cooper.
CopyrightThis work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. For more information, go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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MIDG Piece on Subway Car, New York, NY
Martha Cooper
Date: c. 1980
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.182.2
The piece book of Edwin "HE"
Edwin "HE"
Date: c. 1979
Medium: ink; paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.132.5
Alice Cooper, Ze Whiz Kidz & The Doily Brothers at the Paramount Northwest, Seattle, WA, July 9 - 10, 1971
Alice Cooper
Date: July 9-10, 1971
Medium: paper (fiber product); ink
Object number: 1999.509.3
Poster Design by David Edward Byrd for the Jimi Hendrix Experience and the Joshua Light Show at the Fillmore East, New York, NY, May 10, 1968
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Date: c. 1968
Medium: paper (fiber product); pencils; ink
Object number: 1995.29.5
Large format image
Ray Charles
Date: c. 1966
Medium: cardboard; ink; stickers
Object number: 1994.233.2