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At our Instagram SignLaboratory<\/a>, we post a lot of graffiti: messages scribbled by valiant, expressive, anonymous souls as they move around the city. It is a fine practice: seizing a moment to scratch a subversive message. They are, more often than not,\u00a0uplifting.<\/p>\n

We hadn’t thought of the lineage of graffiti until a friend showed us Brassa\u00ef Graffiti<\/a>,a book of images the great photographer started making in the 1930’s of messages \u00a0etched and carved in walls around France, gradually reworked, revised over time using other mostly crude media.<\/p>\n

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Estate of Brassai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He was smitten with it.<\/p>\n

\"The
The Estate of Brassai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The practice of making graffiti is, in truth, ancient. This animal carved into a wall of the\u00a0Kom Ombo temple in Egypt c. 180 BC \u00a0echoes the one Brassai found, above.<\/p>\n

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A\u00a0graffito\u00a0caricature of a politician found on a wall in ancient Pompeii makes us realize little has changed in the art of being human.<\/p>\n

\"Jebulon\"
Jebulon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We can’t help seeing the cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux as graffiti that proclaim “I am here!”<\/p>\n

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Leticia Gaedon Bradford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Graffiti can be elaborate and carefully plotted, like the work of Banksy…<\/p>\n

\"Banksy\"
Banksy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…or as simple as this tiny poweful message written on rusty gate…<\/p>\n

\"Sally
Sally Schneider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No matter how modest, graffiti is always an act of liberation and VOICE\u00a0as we discovered the day we picked up a Sharpie found in the park, and wrote our first message (it’s still there, 6 months later)…<\/p>\n

\"Sally
Sally Schneider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We recommend carrying a marker,\u00a0a piece of chalk, a favorite sticker… as you go about your day, to write a message, a word of encouragement or outrage or hope…<\/p>\n

\"The
The Estate of Brassai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…and see what happens…<\/p>\n

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