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Starting this Friday and running till February 28, the gallery at the Hermes store (691 Madison Avenue) will be showing photographer Bruce Davidson's subway photographs. Davidson, who work also includes civil rights moments and a study of an East Harlem street, captured that distinct period of time during the 80s when subway cars were filled with graffiti, crime was terrible, and the Me decade was just beginning. You can see more of his photographs at Magnum Photos.
More about the exhibit here and more about graffiti in New York from Gothamist.
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jesus- it's just like The Warriors. I remember when the subways were like that- when I was a kid, in the early 1980s, it was terrifying being down there.
but the graffiti is great! rachelle and i went to the transit museum yesterday and i kind of wish that they had old train cars with graffiti in them.
I live this one and also this one and this one too
I was about to ask one of you, Tien, if any of the cars in the museum had grafitti. Now I know.
these are great shots. new york really was much more interesting before it was turned into a terrorist targeted disneyfied yuppie wasteland.
it seems to me that the mta doesn't like to remember when the trains had graffiti on them. fools!
i have memories of trains speeding by on the express tracks that were covered in graffiti. while some where just your standard run of the mill stuff, there were also some trains that looked really cool with the graffiti.
immediately after watching the train pass in awe, the muggers stole my milk money.
Reading Jake's comments regarding The Warriors makes me wonder: wouldn't it be cool if they shot the film in the early 80's and included a gang called The Stockbrokers? They would all wear white face paint(like the Baseball Furies), blue pinstripe Brooks Brothers suits and wield briefcases filled with bricks as weapons.
"Warriors ... come out to playeeeyaaay... and let me look at your stock portfoliooooooo."
i love this type of nyc history! i'm a non-new yorker, but i've long been fascinated with the city. thanks for posting that link... it kept me busy all afternoon. :)
I just read a great book about that time frame and area. Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called "The Tipping Point," which would be an excellent read for anyone interested in that topic...that is the first picture I have seen of the subway car all messed up though.
I also remember when NYC's subways looked like this.
The cliché " it was the best of times, it was the worst of times" applies to this period of NYC history.
On the surface, NYC was a dirtier and bit scarier place then than it is now, but it was also oozing with sexual energy.
This is something that cannot be said of NYC today.
I saw an old copy of this Bruce Davidson's book for sale at the Housing Store Thrift shop last year. It was being sold for 400 dollars. I'm guessing whoever purchased that copy is responsible for reigniting interest in Bruce Davidson’s work.
I'm definitely going to see the exhibition at Hermes and purchase the newer edition of this book- it's fabulous.
I must say the store front display at Hermes was great. The display looked so realistic. Did anyone know that some of the subway memorabilia can be bought off the mta website, they have alot of interesting stuff from the redbird fleet.
I must say the store front display at Hermes was great. The display looked so realistic. Did anyone know that some of the subway memorabilia can be bought off the mta website, they have alot of interesting stuff from the redbird fleet.