Welcome to “Sur” (South, So.Calif). These photographs are of Chicano “placos” (wall writing) painted mostly in the 1970s by gang members.
LA Placos, 1970s
Posts Tagged: Graffiti
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Love Graffiti
Writings on the walls in Rome is nothing new.
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Samo on TV Party
httpv://youtu.be/f-Yv7j2cGAs
In 1979, a nineteen-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat appeared on Glenn O’Brien’s infamous TV Party public access show.
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ESPO: Quality Communication, No Permission
‘The 7-11 at 64th and Lebanon ave, Overbrook Philadelphia 1984, I’m boosting mallo-cups and that’s a soft pretzel in me gob.’
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Student Speak
What’s in the hearts and minds of young University of Florida students?
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Names on Trains
Poetic words from young artists struggling in the South Bronx during the 1980s.