This back-to-back piece on an Auckland building site wall was created in the mid-1980s by early street art collective Smooth Inc. Hip-hop-inspired graffiti art like this started appearing on urban streets after the American documentary Style wars aired in New Zealand in 1984.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Creative New Zealand Collection (PA-Group-00064)
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PA12-5859-09
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