Event: Street Shots Exhibition by Martha Cooper in Los Angeles

An exhibition of works by legendary street photographer Martha Cooper is currently being presented at Subliminal Projects in LA until February 13th.  Martha Cooper is a photographer who has been capturing the graffiti and hip-hop scenes through colorful images since the 1970s.  She started by documenting imaginative children in New York City and quickly became involved in the development of hip-hop culture.  Her recent book, Going Postal, is a collection of street art utilizing postal labels for their canvas.  Throughout her lengthy and celebrated career, Cooper has proven her ability to capture the spirit of graffiti and the often-anonymous artists behind the work.  SuperTouch describes the exhibit:

Her massive body of color photographs documents the most crucial movers and innovators of the era, from the then-burgeoning realms of bombing, breaking, rapping, alongside everyday peeps straight-up bugging out on the block. Snapshots of what already seems like a long-bygone era when downtown was still a dirty word, rats had the right-of-way, and curb culture wasn’t yet a marketing tool are reminders of the true meaning of early Hip Hop and the power and innovation of youth culture the likes of which we might not see for some time.

[via Super Touch]