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Stickers & Stencils Recommended titles new: Photo gallery of nyc graffiti, and street art
by Marc Mayer Merrell Holberton, 2005. 224 pp.
"From exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. A stunningly designed landmark publication celebrating the astonishing work of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), whose meteoric and often controversial career lasted for only eight years until his death at the age of twenty-seven. The book features spectacular reproductions of Basquiat's work, including many rarely exhibited pieces from private collections; the book offers fresh new perspectives on Basquiat's achievements, explored in the contexts of the key influences on his work, including Picasso, Matisse and Twombly; the development of hip-hop culture; and the emergence of a multicultural society; and explores many of Basquiat's individual works in detail, particularly his working methods and techniques." --book description
by Mark Ferem Mark Batty, 2006. 192pp.
"If you've ever used a public restroom, chances are you've read some bathroom graffiti, or at least noticed it. Often bawdy, funny and smart, sometimes illegible, it is a ubiquitous means of expression found across the United States and all over the world. .... Divided up into thematic sections like "Men's Rooms," "Women's Rooms," "Art" and "Politics," unlike other graffiti books, the examples in Bathroom Graffiti are not so much about graffiti as an art form as much as they are about graffiti as the result of personal expression..." --book description
by Sven Zimmermann Prestel, 2006. 96pp.
by Jon Naar Prestel, 2007. 176pp.
The now global phenomenon of graffiti was first captured in New York by a professional photographer, Jon Naar, in early 1973. The Faith of Graffiti, the first and most celebrated book about this controversial new art form, reproduced just over forty selections from the hundreds of photographs he took. Now more than one hundred thirty never-before-published pictures from that landmark body of work, together with a selection of key photographs from The Faith of Graffiti, are brought together in a book destined to become a classic in its own right.... These photographs recall a time when subway cars and tenement walls seemed to explode overnight into bursts of color and energy. --info from publisher
by Jorn Stiller Stylefile/Gingko Press, 2004. 160 pp.
sketches/scribbles/outlines/fullcolor-burners. text by JYM129 and KAOS 45. --book description Sample images from this book can be viewed here, and a few more here.
by Jorn Stiller Stylefile/Gingko Press, 2004. 160 pp.
sketches/scribbles/outlines/fullcolor-burners. text by SCOTTY.76. --book description
by James T. Murray, Karla L. Murray Gingko Press, 2002. 180 pp.
"In New York in the 80s graffiti moved from the subway trains to large walls which allowed it to become more refined and concept driven. Because walls provide a more stable and reliable surface they have encouraged the artists to create works of much greater depth and complexity and the form is now arguably at its peak. Although it is often indecipherable to the world at large, as Broken Windows - Burning New York shows, graffiti is a radical and daring means of visual communication. Features extensive interviews, the largest collection of women's 'graffiti' to date, and more than 180 artists from The United States, Germany, France, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Holland, Italy, and Norway." --book description Sample images from this book can be viewed here. see "Burning New York", the sequel. visit James and Karla's Flickr page.
by James T. Murray, Karla L. Murray Gingko Press, 2006. 220pp.
"Burning New York features the latest and most exciting graffiti art being created today. In the same vein as Broken Windows it is a collection of interviews, intimate portraits of the artists working in the streets and hundreds of stunning large scale paintings. Burning New York features contemporary works by genre defying graffiti writers, an interesting combination of those who are just beginning to achieve prominence and others who have been honing their skills for decades." --book description
by Christopher D Salyers, Richard Hell Mark Batty, 2006. 64pp.
"CBGB, the music club that helped define New York City's "punk" scene by introducing the world to such bands as the Talking Heads and Ramones, is little more than a bar, a stage and two bathrooms. Since the club opened in 1973, very little has changed about the physical space, with one exception: the graffiti. The club has never stopped its patrons from adding to the mosaics of ink and pencil that literally cover every square inch of the club's walls. As grimy and layered with ink as they are, the walls contain the history of the club, from the musicians to the fans." --book description
by Peter Quezada, Sojin Kim University Press of Mississippi, 1995.
by daim Publikat Verlags, 2006. 108pp.
by Andrew Witten, Michael White Regan Books, 2001. 208pp.
"...Dondi White: Style Master General presents the life and work of a seminal -- yet heretofore overlooked -- American artist whose work has resonated on every level of our popular culture. Filled with rare photographs, original sketches, unpublished interview materials, and testimony from some of Dondi's closest cohorts, here, finally, is the full story...." --book description
by Roger Gastman Gingko Press, June 2005. 192 pp.
"Identity Standards Manual is a concept-driven book that playfully parodies contemporary logo and branding programs. EGO uses photographs of graffiti tags as a point of departure for developing identities for fictitious companies, and then explores corporate applications for these new marks. Furthermore, EGO flips existing corporate logos into experimental tags which are then inserted into the urban environment. Identity Standards Manual is for those interested in the connection between street graffiti and corporate logos." --info from publisher
by Roger Gastman R77, 2004. 120 pp.
"Enamelized features the diverse and unique styles of urban graffiti bombers and the full spectrum of graffiti from the quickly executed tag to full colour pieces displayed in the context of the urban environment." --book description
by Roger Gastman Soft Skull Press, 2001. 158 pp.
"An acclaimed young artist takes readers on a visual journey through the colorful streets of D.C., featuring the hit-and-run stories of the city's most notorious graffiti artists. Candid interviews reveal their motivations, offering glimpses into a unique lifestyle and an underappreciated art form." --book description
by Roger Gastman, Darin Rowland, Ian Sattler Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 352pp.
"This work is an intelligent, well-written, and comprehensive overview of freight train graffiti, a phenomenon that, while its roots reach back to the earliest days of the American railroad, has become much more pervasive in the last ten years. One of the strengths of this book is the volume of artwork it reproduces-page after page of glossy photos catalog the very best freight graffiti has to offer. However, this is more than just a beautiful coffee table volume: the authors have done a fantastic job writing about every aspect of freight train graffiti, from its roots on the streets of New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles to the intricacies of multi-city "crews" and train yard etiquette. Managing to walk the fine line between the academy and the street, the authors are neither ivory tower intellectuals trying to be hip nor graffiti insiders trying to forward an agenda...." --Publishers Weekly
by Futura Booth-Clibborn, 2000. 176 pp.
"Futura is more than an artist; he is a living legend. Over three decades he has been bringing the visual language of hip-hop and the street to a worldwide audience-first through his New York graffiti from the 1970s, then through his 1990s cover art for London-based record label MoWax, and recently through comics, animation, photography, multimedia and clothing. Now he has produced his first book. Think sketchbook, confessional, photo album and archive-not just an overview but an extension of his work...." --book description
by Vincent Fedorchak Testify Books, 2005. 391pp.
"Filled with hundreds of never-before-published photos of graffiti art and Bronx cityscapes, as well as first-hand accounts of the exploits of legendary graffiti artists such as DONDI, BLADE, COMET, NOC 167, BOOTS 119, and others, FUZZ ONE is a guided tour of a heretofore uncharted Bronx underworld. This epic tale of youth gone awry fully captures an important era of cultural upheaval in New York City's history. It is set apart from other memoirs via the inclusion of more than 300 images, nearly all in color, that give the volume strong historical, anthropological, and cultural appeal." --book description
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