28 Jun 2017
Faces Places
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
Martha: A Picture Story
In 1970s New York, photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of graffiti at a time when the city had declared war on it. Decades later, Cooper has become an influential godmother to a global movement of street artists.
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