Eric Felisbret Interview

You been covering the New York City Graf scene for 30 years. What finally made you want to put a book out?

Back in the ’70s when I was writing I began to photograph graffiti because it is an efermal art form and I wanted to preserve it. Over the course of several years I amassed a substantial collection of photographs. Then back in the early 1990s my bro SPAR ONE, wanted to publish a book, so we started to organize our subway photos and SPAR began to interview artists. During that process the Internet came around and we felt it was a better fit for our project.  It allowed for the project to be open ended, we could continually add new profiles and interviews.  In 1998 we launched www.at149st.com a history of the New York scene.

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