Cope2, born Fernando Carlo Jr., is an iconic name in graffiti - one of New York's pioneering artists in the '80s and '90s, founder of the KINGS DESTROY crew, and known for his wildstyle tagging - and here 35+ years of his work are compiled into one vibrant volume.

In over 250 colour photos, see his work transition from his early days in the South Bronx to his current gallery work featured worldwide. Divided into four chapters - Subway Cars and Trains, Painted Walls, Bubble Throw Ups, and Gallery and Artworks - Cope2's art may shift in medium, time, and place, but it remains fundamentally the same at its core: colourful, authentic, and raw.

In addition to the hundreds of photos of his work, excerpts from an interview with Cope2 by Carlos Mare, the museum programming director of the Museum of Graffiti, offers stories on Cope2's life and career from the artist himself.

Born in Kingsbridge in the Bronx, Fernando Carlo began his graffiti career with the encouragement of his cousin, Chico 80, and has since grown into an internationally known artist. Over four decades, he developed his trademark style on subways, trains, and walls and then moved into gallery work, which has been exhibited in Venice, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, and more.

• Hardback
• 272 colour and b/w images

The Crash Kid Graffiti Archive Book is something like the legacy of Massimo Colonna, who as Crash Kid shook up the Italian hip-hop scene. In the 80s he established himself as one of the best breakdancers of his time, which came to a far too early end in 1997 when he died of cancer at just 26 years old.

What is perhaps less well known is the fact that Crash Kid left behind a massive body of photographic work fully dedicated to the hip-hop world. The Crash Kid Graffiti Archive book now features unpublished photographs from his archive dedicated to graffiti.

Shot in cities such as New York, Paris, Rome, Monaco and Basel, it features the work of Bando, Mode 2, Dare, Can 2, Loomit, Napal, Stand, Pane, Rusty, Zero T, Dayaki, Eron and many others, often posing in front of their own writings.

The photographs, taken over the course of about a decade, thus offer an interesting glimpse into the worldwide graffiti and hip-hop scene of those days.

Publisher's proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit the Italian Association Against Leukemia Lymphoma and Myeloma.

What Happens When a Machine and a Graffiti Writer Collaborate?This book explores that intriguing question, as Alone HM, Alsino Skowronnek, Theodor Guelat, and Team Flight Mode embark on a bold journey into uncharted creative territory.

The result is a series of extraordinary works shaped by the interplay of human artistry and artificial intelligence: some pieces partially painted by machines, others painted onto machines—merging neural networks with railway networks.Gradient Descent captures the spirit of innovation, experimentation, and transformation.

It bridges the gap between traditional graffiti aesthetics and the digital age, preserving core principles while sometimes breaking them entirely. This is a story of redefining boundaries and pushing the limits of what graffiti can be in a modern, tech-driven world.

Format: 19 x 25 cm
Language: English
Pages: 144
Edition of 500

Authors: Alone, Alsino Skowronnek, Theodor Guelat, Team Flight Mode.

Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip-Hop's Moral Center

Author: William Upski Wimsatt

Should graffiti writers organize to tear up the cities, or should they really be bombing the 'burbs? That's the question posed by William Upski Wimsatt in his seminal foray into the world of hip-hop, rap, and street art, and the culture and politics that surround it.

Taking on a broad range of topics, including suburban sprawl, racial identity, and youth activism, Wimsatt (a graffiti artist himself) uses a kaleidoscopic approach that combines stories, cartoons, interviews, disses, parodies, and original research to challenge the suburban mindset wherever it's found: suburbs and corporate headquarters, inner cities and housing projects, even in hip-hop itself. Funny, provocative, and painfully honest, Bomb the Suburbs encourages readers to expand their social boundaries and explore the vibrant, chaotic world that exists beyond their comfort zones.

ISBN: 9781933368559
Imprint: Catapult
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176

Author: Craig Castleman

"Getting Up" is the term used by graffiti "artists" to describe their success in making their mark on the New York subway system. Through candid interviews, New Yorker Craig Castleman documents the inside story of the lives and activities of these young graffitists.

Published: 26 April 1984
ISBN: 9780262530514
Imprint: MIT Press Academic
Format: Paperback
Pages: 206

Author: Rafael Schacter

What graffiti says about contemporary society, and why it demands our urgent attention as a form of civic expression.

What graffiti says about contemporary society, and why it demands our urgent attention as a form of civic expression.

What is graffiti—vandalism, ornament, art? What if, rather than any of those things, we thought of graffiti as a monument? How would that change our understanding of graffiti, and, in turn, our understanding of monument? In Monumental Graffiti, anthropologist Rafael Schacter focuses on the material, communicative, and contextual aspects of these two forms of material culture to provide a timely perspective on public art, citizenship, and the city today. He applies monument as a lens to understand graffiti and graffiti as a lens to comprehend monument, challenging us to consider what the appropriate monument for our contemporary world could be.

Monumental Graffiti unpacks today’s iconoclastic moment, showing us why graffiti demands our urgent attention as a form of expression that challenges power structures by questioning whose voices are included in—and whose are excluded from—public space. Written from 20 years of embedded research on graffiti, the book includes works from graffiti writers such as 10Foot, Delta, Egs, Honet, Mosa, Petro, Revok, and Wombat, alongside those of artists such as Francis Alÿs, Jeremy Deller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jenny Holzer, Klara Liden, Gordan Matta-Clark, William Pope. L, Cy Twombly, and many more.

Richly illustrated, this study of graffiti as monument and monument as graffiti is as fascinating as it is ethnographically expansive.

ISBN: 9780262049221
Imprint: MIT Press
Format: Hardback
Pages: 400

"Take A Walk On The Graff Side" contains a collection of analog photos by Disk One from the years 1986-2023.

Disk One has previously released the books Copenhagen Graffiti 1 and Copenhagen Graffiti 2. In this third book, we not only get to explore Copenhagen but also join him on his travels to New York, Amsterdam, London, Rome, and Berlin.

Burners, throw-ups, tags, panels, and atmospheric images from some classic graffiti spots are freely mixed in the book. The pictures are carefully selected by Disk One from his collection of almost 40 years of photography.

Graffiti from pioneers, legends, kings, and ordinary writers like himself.

• 280 x 210mm,
• Pages: 178 pages
• Language: English

POST GRAFFITI

"We're bringing graffiti to the people again" wrote Code on a delivery van in the summer of 2023, highlighting exactly the trend that he set together with Moses and Taps, Otis, Futo and Thunder. A wave of no-longer-all-yellow delivery vans that first spilled over from Hamburg to Berlin and Dortmund and then spread throughout the country.

POST GRAFFITI - SIMPLY DELIVERED illustrates the cornerstone of the exciting development of graffiti on delivery vans.

On 320 pages with photos by Edward Nightingale and Emmett Edelstein, among others, the book shows how graffiti was able to reinvent itself and still remain true to itself.

POST GRAFFITI - SIMPLY DELIVERED.
Hardcover with screen print
320 pages, 130 g Munken Lynx 1.13
24 cm x 28 cm
Text: German/English
Printed and bound in Germany, 2024