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MIDG Piece on Subway Car, New York, NY
MIDG Piece on Subway Car, New York, NY

MIDG Piece on Subway Car, New York, NY

Photographer Martha Cooper
Associated name MIDG
Datec. 1980
Mediumpaper (fiber product)
DimensionsOverall (HWD): 3 3/16 × 4 5/16 in. (8.096 × 11.007 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection, copyright Martha Cooper
Object number1999.182.2
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 photo of NYC Transit with “MIDG” graffiti written on subway cart. 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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