

Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and cool.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
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- DondiSelf
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- Eric HazeSelf
- Ed KochSelf
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- Irene CaraSelf
- Gene Anthony RaySelf
- SkemeSelf
Crew
- Tony SilverDirector
- Burleigh WartesDirector of Photography
- Sam PollardEditor
- Tony SilverProducer
- Henry ChalfantProducer
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