Martha Cooper – “Hip Hop Files: Photographs 1979-1984”

The Hip Hop Files:  Photographs 1979 – 1984 is a book of photographs and interviews by Martha Cooper, an American photojournalist who worked for the New York Post in the 1970’s and 80’s.  She is most well known for documenting the graffiti culture in the 1970’s.  This collection paints broad picture of the youth involved in the birth of hip-hop in New York.

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