HENRY CHALFANT

Né à Sewickley en 1940
Travaille et réside à New York
www.henrychalfant.com

Henry Chalfant est surtout connu pour ses photographies et ses films documentaires sur la jeune culture urbaine.

Ses photographies de peintures dans le métro de New York ont donné naissance à des centaines d’œuvres d’art éphémères qui se sont, depuis, effacées.

Ses photographies commencent à être exposées à la O.K. Harris Gallery en 1980, lors de la célèbre exposition du «New York-New Wave » en 1981, et également lors de The American Century, au Whitney Museum de New York en 1999, Born in the Streets à la Fondation Cartier à Paris, 2010 et Art in the Streets au MOCA à Los Angeles en 2011 ; Language of the Wall, Istanbul, 2014 ;  he Bridges of Graffiti, Biennale di Venezia, 2015.

Il a co-écrit le récit définitif de l’art du graffiti de New York, Subway Art (Holt Rinehart Winston, N.Y. 1984) ainsi qu’une suite qui parle des formes sous lesquelles cet art est diffusé à travers le monde, Spraycan Art (Thames and Hudson Inc. London, 1987). Subway Art, 25th anniversary (Thames and Hudson, 2008) ; Training Days avec Sacha Jenkins (Thames et Hudson, 2015).

En 1983, Chalfant co-produit le documentaire de la chaîne PBS, Style Wars, documentaire très travaillé sur le Graffiti et la culture Hip Hop. En 1993, Rita Fecher et lui font Flyin’ Cut Sleeves, un portrait de cinq gangs de rue régnant sur le Bronx.

Son film From Mambo to Hip Hop apparut dans la série télévisée latino Voces en 2006-2007, et remporta un Alma Award pour meilleur documentaire.

Chalfant est le producteur exécutif de Queer City, sorti en 2015, un documentaire sur la vie homosexuelle à New York pendant le millénaire, et Some Girls, un travail en progression qui étudie les problèmes d’identité au sein de la communauté Latino-Américaine.

Henry Chalfant is best known for his photography and film documentation urban youth culture. His photographs of New York’s subway paintings record hundreds of ephemeral art works that have long since vanished.

Exhibits of his photos begin with the O.K. Harris Gallery, 1980, the landmark ‘New York-New Wave’ show at P.S. l in 1981, and continue to include The American Century, Whitney Museum, New York, 1999; Born in the Streets at the Cartier Foundation in Paris, 2010 and Art in the Streets at MOCA in Los Angeles in 2011; Language of the Wall, Istanbul, 2014; The Bridges of Graffiti, Biennale di Venezia, 2015. He has co-authored the definitive account of New York graffiti art, Subway Art (Holt Rinehart Winston, N.Y. 1984) and a sequel on the art form’s world-wide diffusion, Spraycan Art (Thames and Hudson Inc. London, 1987).

Subway Art, 25th Anniversary (Thames and Hudson, 2008); Training Days with Sacha Jenkins (Thames and Hudson, 2015).

In 1983, Chalfant co-produced the PBS documentary, Style Wars, the highly considered documentary about Graffiti and Hip Hop culture . In 1993 he and Rita Fecher made Flyin’ Cut Sleeves, a portrayal of 5 street gang presidents in the Bronx.

His film From Mambo to Hip Hop was featured in the Latino Public Broadcasting series, Voces in 2006-2007, and won an Alma Award for Best Documentary. Chalfant is executive producer on Queer City, released in 2015, a documentary on gay life in New York in the new millennium, and Some Girls, a work in progress exploring issues of identity within the Latina-American community

EPOXY – Art Contemporain Urbain & Graffiti – FESTIVAL ROSE BETON – TOULOUSE-FR 2016. Photos : Big Addict – Design : Ianik – All Rights Reserved
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