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In 1984, the groundbreaking Subway Art brought graffiti to the world. 30 years on, the bible of the street-art movement is back and better than ever.
• With over 70 fresh photographs not included in the original edition.
• In new introductions Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant recall how they gained entry to the New York City graffiti community in the 1970s and 1980s.
• New afterwords continue the story from the decline of the subway graffiti scene in the late 1980s to its unexpected rebirth as a global art movement.
• The authors bring us up to date on how the lives of the original subway artists have unfolded, and mourn the loss of several writers to the darker forces of the street.
128 pages, softcover, 23.5 x 33.5 cm
Writing the same name for over 25 years seems to lead into two possible scenarios: writers achieve a kind of individual peak of style and piecing, which is now constantly repeated with minor changes. Or the second, and by far more rare occurring one: writers who continuously work on their never-changing letters, facing the challenge to let their name look new, surprising and vivid with every latest piece.
In NEVER BE LATE, prime example of the latter category ROGER, presents a selection of 55 pieces from 2006 till today. Full colour panels in Vienna and hall of fame burners in Berlin, abandoned industrial black-and-white pieces and S-Bahn candy coloured quicks or dirty subways combined with perfect traffic shots in bright sunlight: these opposing couples hint the variety of surfaces he uses while at the same time each double page demonstrates the artist’s sheer endless ways of reshaping his name.
The remaining pages show hundreds of name and crew sketchings. Unlike other publications of the last years in which sketches are presented as perfect drafts for later pieces, you can follow ROGER working on ideas which sometimes need several attempts to become final outlines. While the pieces, as painted in public space, are intended to reach a broad audience of spectators, having access to these authentic sketches feels like a clandestine look into an intimate diary of style.
Analyzing ROGER’s scribbles you will find yourself checking the books’ first half again and again for possible executions of his ideas, but also wondering if you might have seen the product in traffic, online or if they have ever been realised at all. Don’t miss the chance to get the first print publication ever by one of Berlin's top notch writers!
100 pages, 22 x 19 cm, screen printed hardcover and additional dust jacket
Paper: Munken Lynx rough
NOGA, or Nation of Graffiti Artists was the utopian vision of Jack Pelsinger, who begged the city for a studio where kids of all talent levels could further their interests in the arts. The 1970s were a time in New York’s history where a request like this could be accommodated, the city leased the group a run-down storefront for $1 dollar a month in 1974. Like moths drawn to a light, the kids showed up, hundreds of them.
A ragtag bunch of teenagers helped him clear garbage from the space and build it out (while covering it in tags and pieces, of course). For some of them, it was the first time holding a brush or spray can. Some had painted a few trains before, and soon some of the biggest names of the era became regulars (SCORPIO, BLOOD TEA, ALI, STAN 153, SAL 161and CLIFF 159).
152 pages, Hardcover, 8" x 11"
Filled with 26 colourful marker drawings contributed by some of graffiti art's ultimate style masters.
The ABCs of Style is part children's book - part adult art primer, tracking the evolution of graffiti letter forms.
Each letter of the alphabet has been rendered by a different artist - with work from renowned writers: Blade - Lee - Daze - Fuzz One - Haze - Jester - Doc - Ces - Cey - Trike - Part - Reas - Wane - SP - Keo - Queen Andrea and many others.
Hardcover - 64 pages - 30 colour - 21 x 26 cm
Author: Claudia Walde
Classic graffiti lettering and experimental typographical forms lie at the heart of street culture and have long inspired designers in many different fields. But graffiti artists, who tend to paint the same letters of their tag again and again, rarely design complete alphabets.
Claudia Walde spent over two years collecting alphabets by 154 artists from thirty countries to show the many different styles and approaches to lettering within the graffiti and street art cultures. All of the artists have roots in graffiti. Some are world renowned such as 123 Klan (Canada), Faith47 (South Africa), and Hera (Germany); others are lesser known or only now starting to emerge.
Each artist received the same instructions: design all twenty- six letters of the Latin alphabet within the limits of a single page of the book. How they approached this task and selected the media with which to express their ideas was entirely up to them, and the results encompass not just street art but sketches, sculpture, digital art, and photography.
Softcover, 320 pages, 400 colour illustrations, 8.5" x 11" x 1.2"
This classic title, back in print in this special 10th anniversary edition, is the story of New York City's infamous RIS crew in their 1980s heydey. At the same time the golden age of hip hop was in full bloom, a group of kids got together to taste the last of the city’s painted subway trains, just in time to experience a new era in New York’s graffiti history. This title celebrates the RIS crew and their worldwide infamy, innovative graffiti style and persistence in the face of persecution from the authorities.
ISBN 9789188369406. Dokument Press. hb. 128 pages. fully illustrated. 19 x 25 cm.
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