Henry Chalfant: New York's defining street art photographer

The 79-year-old looks back on a career of capturing graffiti and the hip-hop scene in Manhattan through the 70s and 80sIn the late 1970s, New York photographer Henry Chalfant embarked on a potentially dangerous project – to shoot graffiti on the city’s subway cars.“I was a middle-aged white man, so I would be stopped by the police and they’d say politely, ‘Sir, what are you doing?” recalls the 79-year-old photographer recently in The Bronx. “I’d te