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If you discovered graffiti in the 80’s or early 90’s it’s mostly credited to this lady, famed photographer and hip-hop culture historian Martha Cooper. She stuck to the artist’s G code (always stay curious) and it paid off. When white America thought these poor brown kids were just destroying public property, Cooper saw young disenfranchised artists and urban dwellers who had built their own universe out of nothing. Aside from photographer and film maker Henry Chalfant (Wild Style, 1983), co-author …