Street art · Paris
Photo: Anicius Olybrius, CC BY-SA 2.0
These Montmartre steps are tagged with layers of wildstyle scrawl…
By Invader
These Montmartre steps are tagged with layers of wildstyle scrawl going back decades — a scruffy counterpoint to the Haussmannian facade above, proof this hill has always belonged to both bourgeois Paris and its outlaw taggers.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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