The art historian and jazz writer Robert Reisner was one of the earliest graffiti researchers in the United States. He also popularized 'Bird Lives' graffiti via his publications.

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The photographer Brassaï declared anonymous Paris scratch graffiti to be art from 1933 onwards.  However, it wasn't until 1953 that he was able to gradually publish his photos in mainstream media and  to exhibit them from 1956 onwards.

In keeping with Prévert's own appreciation of graffiti, the poet himself posthumously became a stencil graffiti made by the 1980s pochoirist group Nice Art around Ariane Pasco (*1958). This work was based on a well-known portrait shot by Prévert's friend, the photographer Robert Doisneau (1912-94). It shows Prévert sitting in a bistro on the Quay Saint-Bernard, Paris, around 1955.