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

Ride back in time on the colorful New York City subway line of the 1970s to 1990s; the graffiti years, when subway cars became rolling metal canvases for some of the most notorious and influential graffiti "writers" of all time. Explore the amazing array of art work from the 1970s, '80s and '90s transit system "graveyards," including the work of graffiti artists BLADE, GHOST, SENT, REAS, VEN, WOLF, and STRIDER, as well as many other talented "underdogs." The era is richly illustrated with over 235 rare, never-before-published photographs accompanied by personal accounts from the writers talking about their art and recalling their wild antics. This is an informative, nostalgic look at New York subway graffiti. AUTHOR: Tod Lange, from Queens, New York, was introduced to graffiti in 1987, when he was 13 years old. He has become an artist and photographer, currently living in Pennsylvania.

It all started in 2011 with a small issue to mark the archive anniversary. Today, over a decade later, we present our 10th issue – with a whopping 130 pages, twice as thick as the first issue. A reason to celebrate!

32 Pages
A4 – Softcover
100% Trains

Content:
2PAY Special
FLINK Special
SOS CREW Special
Nightjet Special

– Wien U-Bahn / Vienna Subway
– Wien S-Bahn / Vienna S-Trains
– Cityjet
– Austrian / Österreich Trains
– International Subway
– International Trains

Offline Magazine Vol.9

Offline No. 9 - The trainwriting mag from Austria is back with its 9th issue and once again has plenty of rolling steel in its luggage. The focus here is clearly on subways, suburban trains and Regios from Vienna, Austria and there are also a few international photos.

- Vienna U-Bahn / Vienna Subway
- Vienna Bim / Vienna Tram
- KLIMA Special
- Vienna S-Bahn / Vienna S-Trains
- BATTERY Special
- Cityjet
- Austrian / Austria Trains
- International Trains

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

RAZOR is and remains an exceptional phenomenon when it comes to graffiti on trains – worldwide and across all generations! For more than 30 years now, he has been playing his colourful game – mainly in the yards of his home in northern Germany, but trips across the nation and Europe have also been documented in this book.

In every phase of his busy career, he has managed to stand out from the great mass of writers and to constantly raise the bar in terms of quality. The output of his first two decades was still to be found in classic stylewriting, but in recent years he has expanded his repertoire to include conceptual works such as his ICE project. RAZOR - COLORS ON STEEL is structured like a blackbook and has a very personal character. He himself opens the book with the following words:

“Let’s start a blackbook session! Take your time, sit back and enjoy. I’ll show you my blackbook with my works from back in the days when it all began in 1990. It all started first at the end of the 1980s when I was infected by a virus called graffiti. From that point on I did graffiti wherever I wanted to and whenever I wanted to. I’ll show you my photos and I will tell you lots of stories, some crazy, some funny and with all those little details and in the same manner, like I would tell them to my friends.”

Hardcover, 196 Pages

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.

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