Graffiti Makes Great Background for Photos
Just a quick post tonight with a little inspiration for me to start a new photo project. I am so going to do this! Sweet Juniper is blog written by a couple of urban hipster parents who have taken to photographing their cute and spunky daughter in front of graffiti. Simple as that. Dutch from Sweet Juniper says:
“I’ve got a whole flickr set of these Graffiti Girl pictures, and I’ve started a flickr group for you to upload shots of your babies in front of graffiti in your own towns, if you are so inclined.”
Since we live in Los Angeles, we come across cool graffiti art all the time. This is a unique way to use your surroundings as a colorful backdrop. And believe me, it’s definitely pretty colorful around here at times, that’s for sure. I take for granted to cool urban-scape that surrounds me every day.
Thanks, Rookie Moms, for the tip!
Responses and Conversations
It does make a cool background, as long as you watch out what words (mainly 4-letter type) are painted on the walls!
Comment by jimmyD on June 26th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
I was actually surprised that they were able to get such fun, and clean graffiti. Most of these paintings are real pieces of art.
El Monte graffiti lacks an artistic flare, but the further west we go, the more interesting our tagging becomes.
Comment by Christopher Frazier on June 27th, 2006 at 8:06 am
love it its insane
Comment by applejuice on April 16th, 2007 at 4:50 am
how about instead of taking pictures of kids in front of graffiti you actually photograph the graffiti itself, or do you just enjoy hijacking somebody else’s hard work and artistic flare for the plagaristic efforts of your own “art”.
Comment by Graffiti kid on March 14th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
@Graffiti Kid – It’s funny you should mention people’s work being hijacked… I have a friend whose work (he’s gone straight now, but he used to do some amazing, HUGE writing) showed up in Juxtapoz and of course they couldn’t credit him correctly because… you know… you can’t. It’s an interesting dilemma because it’s not like you’ve got there’s a citation method in MLA for graffiti… you just make the most of it being around for as long as its around.
I guess my point is… these are people who want to expose their kids and other people to something that is controversial but that they believe has artistic merit. To suggest that taking a photo in front of some great writing is plagiarism is short-sighted at best. But if you disagree with that, please set me straight.
Comment by Christopher Frazier on March 14th, 2009 at 8:50 pm