Jean-Michel Basquiat with green superball, New York City, c. 1980 USA Original photograph in limited editionSeries

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Chris Stein of Blondie was photographed on the Bowery in 1977

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Jean-Michel Basquiat with green superball, New York City, c. 1980 USA Original photograph in limited editionSeriesJean Michel Basquiat photographed in New York City, c. 1980, by Bobby Grossman. Around 1980 Jean Michel Basquiat was emerging from the SAMO graffiti tag he had sprayed across downtown Manhattan into the gallery world that would soon make him a phenomenon. Still a fixture of the same TV Party and club circuit Grossman documented, he stood at the threshold between street and art world fame. Photographed here in color, holding a green superball, Basquiat