Chris "daze" Ellis
June, 2016
It's no accident that the two seminal films about New York graffiti and hip-hop culture in the early 1980s both have the word "style" in their titles (Style Wars and Wild Style). When you're tagging a subway car with one eye looking outfor the police, style is just about the only thing you have time for. No one knows this better than Chris Ellis, the veteran graffiti writer and street-art pioneer whose intricate, angular signature—daze—was a familiar sight in 1970s and 1980s New York....
