graffiti history

I've had this picture for awhile. I just saw a similar view in a book on graffiti writers. some of the old graffiti is still there, and new graffiti. the lot used to be asphalt. and you can't shoot like you used to on the bridge because of all the fencing and removal of flooring.

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Andreas Reinhold says:

How can anybody tell me, that graffitis are ugly? This is great!
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

lensjockey says:

I agree. It's very hard for me to think of it as a crime, I mean, I know it is, but I love it so much. this is years of interesting coverage. and I prefer this look to the newer more complicated things. Frankly, I really think more attention should be paid to the different kinds of marks. it all means something to somebody. I wish I had time-lapse footage of all of this going up over the years.
thanks - on behalf of the graf.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

Jaganatha says:

This is such a great example of the beauty of graffiti. Wonderful wonderful shot.

I just got some shots from when I was in Brooklyn. You've inspired me to share. thx.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

lensjockey says:

thanks Jaganatha - hope you had a great time here. put the Brooklyn up!
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

Canon Man52 says:

This is how some of the great artist started, Great colors..
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

lensjockey says:

Canon Man52 - of course grafitti existed before, but when I think of grafitti I think of Lascaux and NYC. the exquisite and highly textured layering of the grafitti here is so attractive to me. It's like a form of communal abstract expressionism. I could look at this shot for hours just because I love what's in it so much, and it's just these buildings you can see from the bridge - but they are just so sartorially choice.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

teenage jesus says:

so everybody agrees here that graffiti are beautiful.
very well
(personally I don't like graffiti on the coloseum or right Monna Lisa's cute face, but this is just a matter of taste, ehehe)
I am fascinated by their urban expressionism
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

lensjockey says:

it's all in the execution of course, but a little grafitti makes things look better to me, like spicy NYC, like a condiment for buildings and - anything...
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

Alan Wentworth says:

beautiful!
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

lensjockey says:

thank you so much.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

carbronsita says:

Totaly rules! www.flickr.com/groups/slayrah/ add to this group if you like
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

lensjockey says:

oh thanks! cool -
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

pinkyhonor says:

a condiment, that's great. compared to some of the architecture that's gone up in the city in the last 20 years, the bland, cheap boxes that really suck, these guys are the saviours. they should be hired to coat the town. i don't really know what's gone up in the last few years. there used to be a school playground wall near me in brooklyn covered with amazing stuff, i would worship it.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

lensjockey says:

hi - some is so beautiful. the calligraphy is so elegant sometimes. I love a really good tag the most. sometimes I like it where someone's painted over some grafitti so you have these off colors over the original paint. I did a series of gouache illustrations for this thing I was working on - really elaborate - and then a couple of years later I marked them up with a fat pen - in layers - you can't read what the writing is, but I showed it to some guy and he didn't get it. there is something about the clash of uh, two entities. the building and the grafitti become one... I think they are very interesting psychologically. they are human marks (for whatever the reason) - and NYC has the best. oh yeah, and the new "architecture?" - I wish I could find some I really love.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

street stars says:

nice!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

beans* says:

This has the look of a turn-of-the-century tinted postcard. Thumbs up!
beans*
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

jrish says:

Hi all, does anyone know where this was shot?
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

Clicknflash says:

jrish look at the tags for the picture to the right, it says NYC, Spicy NYC, Brooklyn, Williamsburg and from the Wiliamsburg bridge. alot of the time yo can just check the tags for the location.

Nice photo! picture how boring this shot would be without the graffiti.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

lensjockey says:

graf makes everything look better. this was shot through a teeny liitle spot through the gross pink walkway habitraily thing that has been built on the bridge. the buildings around the bridge are so beautiful. but it's changed so much... The Williamsburg bridge used toi be so great to run around on.
sigh.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

kootenayvolcano says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Graffiti History, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

~R!$E~ says:

nice!!
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

themajors22 says:

where is this at what state
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

lensjockey says:

NYC!!!! Brooklyn to be exact.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

All White Jury says:

Five Points is what it's called and it's a permission spot in Brooklyn
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

lensjockey says:

hmm, I thought Five Points was in Manhattan - at least there is a spot called that in Manhattan. what's a permission spot?
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

Brigham Baker says:

i get so happy when i see these kinds of places
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

street stars says:

dude this is not 5 pointz... 5 pointz is in queens, and is different than 5 points of lower manhattan, which is located at the intersection of worth and mulberry
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

alepuz says:

this place looks amazing, the picure also is realy nice.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

*$@!#% says:

Earsnot
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

grandtheftautozzz... says:

great shot!
yo not one fool rocked a burner thou!! mad throwies..
i guess different out there..
we bomb burners out here
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

fairmaidenbmt says:

I love this picture graffiti can be so beautiful!
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

stillsearching... says:

love the sky!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

INSTINTOZONASUR says:

esta genial esa foto de vecindario,
se ve underground
saludos
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

tegmaster14 says:

if you think graffiti cannot be art check out my blog, plenty of illegal graff that is just remarkable, sypenyc.wordpress.com/
Posted 6 weeks ago. ( permalink )

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