04.17.08
Paris Graffiti Art
My good friend Corry likes to photograph and keep track of various kinds of graffiti throughout the city. She’s drawn my attention to certain artists, like the Invader (check out this photo set on flickr for more) and other trends, such as paper graffiti. Over these many months of living in Paris, I’ve captured a few examples of graffiti in various forms.
This is a stenciled image - a common technique for creating repeated images throughout the city (or the world).
This paper découpage-style graffiti seems to be gaining popularity in Paris.
Another example of découpage. Note also the Invader mosaic to the left.
I saw this marker drawing on a post near my bus stop at the Bibliothèque Nationale.
My favorite: knit graffiti. The appearance of this example was part of an exhibition in Paris by Knitta Please, and was on rue Vieille du Temple - a street we frequent several times a week, since it’s between our apartment and Corry’s.
Another mosaic, with one of our favorite video game characters.
And just in case you thought graffiti was a recent phenomenon, here’s an example from 1879, in no other place than the Pantheon!