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Martha Cooper is an American photojournalist born in the 1940s in Baltimore, Maryland where she picked up photography at the age of three.She graduated from high school at the age of 16,earned an art degree at age 19 from Grinnell College She taught English as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand, journeyed by motorcycle from Bangkok to London and received an ethnology diploma from Oxford. She worked as a staff photographer for the New York Post during the 1970s and is perhaps best known for documenting the New York graffiti scene of the 1970s and ’80s.

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