Martha Cooper: Street Play (From Here to Fame, 2006) - Hardcover

Description: Street Play, a captivating collection of Martha Cooper’s photographs from the late 70s, shows the creative and indominable spirit of New York City kids as they turn their inhospitable environment into an adventure playground. Martha Cooper's photos take us through the Alphabet City of the late 70s as the area was about to undergo extensive urban renewal -- a process that is still continuing today. At the time, the neighborhood had more than its share of drug dealers and petty criminals, and the landscape seemed ugly and forbidding. But to the children who grew up there, the abandoned buildings and rubble-strewn lots made perfect playgrounds, providing raw materials and open space for unsupervised play. A crumbling tenement housed a secret clubhouse, rooftops became private aviaries, and a pile of trash might be a source for treasure. Martha Cooper is a photographer who has specialized in shooting urban vernacular art and architecture for twenty-five years. Her first book Subway Art (Thames & Hudson, 1984), a legendary collaboration with Henry Chalfant, is still in print. Martha's photos have been widely exhibited in museums and galleries and published in innumerable magazines from National Geographic to Vibe.

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