"In 1978 I began a personal project taking pictures of kids playing creatively without adult supervision. I met Michael Rivera and his friends in Brooklyn as they were rummaging through piles of debris in vacant lots looking for discarded bicycle parts that they could reassemble into usable bikes." 
- Martha Cooper

"Martha’s photography reminded me of growing up in Baltimore during the same period. The boy (Michael Rivera) retrieving the bicycle tire from the light pole struck a chord in me and I immediately enlarged the image to create a stencil."
- Chris Stain

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Martha Cooper & Chris Stain
"The Bicycle Boys"
Print and Zine Bundle
Limited Edition of 50

8 x 10 Inch Print Signed & Numbered by Martha Cooper
8 x 10 Inch Print Signed & Numbered by Chris Stain
Printed on Kodak Professional Luster Paper

Zine Signed and Numbered by Martha Cooper & Chris Stain
Features previously unpublished photographs of Michael Rivera and 'The Bicycle Boys' by Martha Cooper, Brooklyn, 1979 as well as an original hand-written note from Michael to Martha explaining his ideas for his hand-crafted bikes.
Also features documentation and process photos of Chris installing his 40 x 80 foot mural of his piece for Cre8tive You*THink at Pacific St. and Smith St. off of Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn.
With notes and commentary by both Martha and Chris. Art Direction by Martha.

Hand-Stamped Acid Free Sleeve

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Chris Stain
"N. 9th and Pacific"

Hand-Embellished Print Edition of 15
14 x 17 Inches

Original Stencil Painting
30 x 40 Inches

Original Hand-Cut DuraLar Working Stencil
30 x 40 Inches