50 Jr Graffiti
Describing himself as a photograffeur he flyposts large black and white photographic images in public locations in a manner similar to the appropriation of the built environment by the graffiti artist.
Jr graffiti. Jr is the pseudonym of a french photographer and artist whose identity is unconfirmed. T he parisian photographer jr is a man routinely touted as the hippest street artist since banksy. In 1958 weissmuller jr. Jr has cut loose by adding the graffiti soles to their arsenal. Traditionally each bend of leather has the tannery mark printed on the back but these are wildly printed across the front to add a little fun to your shoe game. They are the ones responsible for their image. Jr began his career as a teenage graffiti artist who was by his own admission not interested in changing the world but in making his mark on public space and society.
There is no doubting these soles are from the same oak bark pits as the traditional jr styled soles. A attack graffiti by wep 90 495 downloads 977 yesterday 7 comments 100 free 2 font files. Got his first screen role in the mickey rooney film andy hardy comes home. His work has sold at sotheby s and been plastered 100ft high on the wall of tate modern. F rench artist jr is famous for telling the stories of places through the people who inhabit them. At a housing project outside paris he pasted supersized portraits of residents on the buildings. Jr describes his practice as a continuation of the tagging he did as a young graffiti artist.
His subsequent credits include parts in thx 1138 1971 and the 1973 hit american graffiti as bad ass 1. Jr is a pseudonymous photographer and graffiti artist. Download donate to author. I m tagging faces of persons he says. Best known for fly papering photocopies of his art onto the streets jr s origins as a photographer began when he found a camera in the paris metro and began documenting his own graffiti work. The french artist jr began as a graffiti artist and now engages in projects on a grander scale including his most recent the wrinkles in the city which has taken place in cartagena spain havana shanghai la and berlin.