Graffiti is one of the longest living forms of art. It’s evolved from cave drawings to big masterpieces on the sides of buildings and continues to fascinate us. You might wanna take the time to really appreciate this street art. Check out some of the most infamous graffiti books we’ve ever seen. Okay they’re not “infamous” per se but they’re fricken cool! Check ‘em out.
GRAFFITI WORLD
This is probably THE best graffiti book out there. It showcases graffiti from 5 different continents.
Book Description
Ever since anonymous spray-can art began appearing on city walls in New York and Philadelphia in the late 1960s, graffiti has been a ubiquitous presence in the urban landscape, its artists largely unsung heroes. As hip-hop culture spread from America, graffiti became a worldwide phenomenon, emerging in the 1980s as the symbolic artistic language of young people everywhere and one of the most potent influences on youth-oriented marketing and design. With more than 2,000 illustrations by over 150 artists from all over the world and interviews with many of them, this visually arresting book is the most comprehensive survey of graffiti art ever published.
Today’s young graffiti artists incorporate a variety of mediums-including stickers, stencils, oils, acrylics, and oil-based chalk-as well as an ever-expanding range of social commentary. This evolution in style and subject matter has earned graffiti the respect of the art world and guaranteed its long-lasting influence on art, graphic design, and style around the world. Great fun for graffiti and pop-culture buffs, the book is also an essential reference work for anyone involved in the visual arts today. AUTHOR BIO: Nicholas Ganz (also known as Keinom, his pen name) is a graffiti artist who has traveled around the world to gather material for this book. He lives in Essen, Germany. Tristan Manco is a graphic artist and director of Bristol-based Tijuana Design. He is the author of Stencil Graffiti and Street Logos.
About the Author
Nicholas Ganz (also known as Keinom, his pen name) is a graffiti artist who has traveled around the world to gather material for this book. He lives in Essen, Germany. Tristan Manco is a graphic artist and director of Bristol-based Tijuana Design. He is the author of Stencil Graffiti and Street Logos.
GRAFFITI WOMEN
This book is similar to its predecessor, Graffiti World but instead showcases women graffiti writers.
Product Description
From the author of the enormously successful Graffiti World comes this spectacular follow-up, celebrating the contributions of women to contemporary graffiti and street art.
Female writers have always been in the vanguard of the graffiti movement, though often shunted to the sidelines by their male counterparts. This exhaustive volume places them front and center, featuring 1,000 full-color illustrations from some of the world’s most prominent artists, including Brazil’s Nina, Japan’s Sasu, Mexico’s Peste, and the Americans Lady Pink, Swoon, and Miss 17. Two eight-page fold-out collages, a fold-out poster jacket, and an authoritative text round out the impressive package. The first and only comprehensive survey of its kind, this book is sure to attract and expand upon the wide and enthusiastic readership that made Graffiti World such a runaway success.
About the Author
Nicholas Ganz, aka Keinom, is a young German graffiti artist who has traveled worldwide to become the leading authority on the graffiti scene. He lives in Essen, Germany. Nancy Macdonald is the author of The Graffiti Subculture: Youth, Masculinity and Identity in London and New York. She lives in London. Swoon is a New York City-based street artist.
THE BIRTH OF GRAFFITI
To learn the history of this infamous urban art, check this out.
Book Description
A classic body of photographs, most never before seen in print, documenting New York graffiti’s emergence.
The now global phenomenon of graffiti was first captured in New York by a professional photographer in early 1973. The result was Jon Naar’s The Faith of Graffiti, the first and most celebrated book about this controversial new art form. Now the forty or so photographs in that book and more than one hundred additional never-before-published pictures from that landmark body of work are brought together in a book destined to become a classic in its own right. Presented full-frame, at high resolution, and with meticulous attention to the original color, this book brings to life the gritty, exciting New York of the early 1970s and the raw visual power of early graffiti.
While today graffiti is an accepted reality of city life–by turns condemned and embraced–these early photographs recall a time when subway cars and tenement walls seemed to explode overnight into bursts of color and energy. In most cases these ephemeral works survive only in Naar’s masterful photographs. Sacha Jenkins, an authority on graffiti’s history, puts these photographs in a broad historical context of an emerging youth culture that now reaches into every corner of art, fashion, and entertainment. At once nostalgic and inspirational, The Birth of Graffiti opens the way to a deeper appreciation of graffiti’s historical and artistic significance.
About the Author
Jon Naar’s work has appeared for more than four decades in publications including The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Elle, and The London Times and has been exhibited at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art. His books of photographs include The Faith of Graffiti and Getting the Picture.
Sacha Jenkins is the editorial director of Mass Appeal magazine and the co-author of ego trip’s Book of Rap Lists and ego trip’s Big Book of Racism.
THESE BOOKS ARE COOL AND ALL BUT OF COURSE WE HAD TO THROW IN SOME CRAZY, SICK, GRAFFITI STYLE T-SHIRTS!
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