Our weekly interview with the street
All posts tagged: Red Nose
August 16, 2009
Artists, BSA Images Of The Week, On the Street
Images of the Week 04.26.09
April 26, 2009
Artists, Brooklyn, BSA Images Of The Week, On the Street
Rock On! Sticker Madness at Ad Hoc With Martha Cooper Going Postal
Long before Flickr was a Flicker in your daddy’s eye, Martha Cooper
was “all-borough” out on the streets and subways of New York with her camera capturing and documenting the legacy of graffiti images for future generations. A quarter century later, Ms. Cooper picked up her first digital camera and found it’s diminutive size and ease of use was perfect for capturing one of her new street loves, the postal sticker, in it’s multitude of incarnations.
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On Friday night Ad Hoc Gallery hosted a lively show, party, and sticker fair to fete Martha and her new book “Going Postal”, the bound document that presents what she’s been snapping since 2002. To paraphrase Ms. Cooper, the book recognizes the aesthetics of the postal label and preserves the ephemeral form in print.
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Lined up outside in the cold Bushwick night, the guests ranged from 7 to 77, the widest demographic we’ve ever seen at a show like this, attesting to the regard people have for sticker art as an art form, and, more likely, their regard for this strong proponent of the creative spirit, Martha Cooper.
Week In Images 01.18.09
January 19, 2009
BSA Images Of The Week, On the Street
Some people have been working hard in their studio, Haculla re-emerges, and there looks like a new taper on the street – this time electrical tape.