The
Shadow Man Photos
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I’ve undertaken
many photographic projects in New York City. One of the shortest-lived,
but one that yielded interesting results, was when I sought out
examples of Richard Hambleton’s Shadow Man. Graffiti art was very
prevalent in the early 1980s, and some of the most interesting was done
by Hambleton, in 1981 and 1982. A few of these malevolent shadow men
can still be found lurking in the Lower East Side, but twenty years ago
they seemed to be everywhere. I was drawn to them because of their
energy, and that they were a magnet for other graffiti artists. The
ironic way in which some had been defaced made for very arresting
images. All of these photographs were the result of a few weekends in
mid-1982.
Please click on the images below for a larger view.
