Topic: Martha Cooper: Street art icon

[Francois]

Found this yesterday.
It's a documentary about photographer Martha Cooper. She documented the rising graffiti movement during the 80's, as well as the early hip hop.
Now seeing this is a real trip back in time, during the days where the Bronx was burning, subway cars were covered with paint, NYC was a bit filthy and energy was in the air.
And to my surprise she's still at it, following the 1UP Crew at some of their bombing sessions.

https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/095805-000-A/martha-cooper-icone-du-street-art/

It's available in both French and German...

[Kai-san]

Arte is a French/German channel, but here in Europe it says that this film is "not available in your country"! I use a VPN so for the time being I'm a Swede. By the way, you can choose between 6 languages, so you will get subtitles in English for example. Those of you living in Europe can watch this documentary about F. C. Gundlach: https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/072429-000-A/f-c-gundlach-master-of-fashion-photography/
Or the photographer without a camera: https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/086962-012-A/the-photographer-without-a-camera/
Maybe they will work in Canada too.
There is a lot of cultural stuff on Arte, last night I watched Morrissey live in Berlin and I've recently watched Iggy Pop live in Paris. Big fun!

[Harvey]

I found this on Sky Arts only last week. An interesting watch and very much of its time but if you’re a fan of street art it’s great. Some interesting snippets about her struggles to get Nat Geo to buy into her ideas.

[Francois]

Maybe they will work in Canada too.

Not all of them work here. But I found a video download site that allows me to watch them anyways.

[cs1]

Thanks for pointing this documentary out. I really liked it (I can watch the whole Arte media section in Germany so it was easy enough to access it). In fact I liked it so much that I got the books "Subway Art" and "Hip Hope Files". The latter already arrived and I love it.

[Francois]

That's great!
I must admit that after watching this I revisited my childhood's early breakdancing music.
Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash and so on...

[rotarysmp]

I really enjoyed watching that. Thanks.
Mark