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Great Depression
During the great depression homeless people would ride trains and often tag their name into the car. -
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The Great Depression
During the great depression homeless people would ride trains and often tag their name into the car. -
Tagging Becomes popular in Philadelphia
Tagging begins to grow in Philadelphia. -
Tagging
The earliest graffiti was tagging. This is still the most popular form of graffiti. A simple name and number was the most common in the 70s in New York. Image:(http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/2010/09/wild-era-of-subway-graffiti-1970-1989.html) -
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New York Trains
New York trains became the spot to tag. New York in general became covered in in and paint as taggers and graffiti artists took to the streets to make their mark. -
The War on Graffiti
Mayor Lindsay the mayor of New York during the time of this graffiti decided to wage a war. This boom of graffiti caused a boom of crime and the Mayor vowed to remove all the trains with graffiti. They were not to go into circulation until they were cleaned. -
Last Graffitied train removed from circulation
Finally the taggers were tired of their work never being seen and stopped tagging the trains. -
Obey
Shepard Fairey the creator of the obey image started by using a simple sticker design and has since moved into large murals and a whole clothing line where he speaks against social and political issues. -
Banksy
Banksy is one of the most well known artists. No one knows his idenity and he is excellent at making big statments. -
Internet
The internet has done something to graffiti that has never been done before. Graffiti is always changing and being taken down with the use of the interent one can see graffiti somewhere else that was only up for a week or two. -
Sticker art
Also known as slaps, sticker art has become insansly popular. With a large growth in Philadelphia and New York small sitcker character cans be seen all around the city and are much like tagging.
