Product Description

New York City is where the quintessential contemporary people’s art of graffiti was born. The top "writers" go "all city" when their tags can be seen throughout the five boroughs. This exhilarating selection of their work, assembled by Hugo Martinez, a leading authority on the history of street art in NYC, takes the reader on an "all-city" tour of New York, displaying the extraordinary range of its taggers and bombers. More than two hundred photographs showcase the artwork of the most prominent names of the past five years, including CASE 2, KEZ, MÖSCO, SKUF, VFR, and MQ. As graffiti comes to be embraced as a medium in its own right, its most important practitioners in NYC confirm the power and creativity of this vital contemporary language.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #317576 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Turtleback
• 152 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9783791336732
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
'[Martinez] is an impresario of graffiti'The Londonist online, February 2007

About the Author
HUGO MARTINEZ is the director of the ALL CITY project in New York, developing installations and exhibitions featuring the most significant historical and contemporary graffiti artists.

NATO, who is now a photographer, was a New York graffiti writer, "King" of the Number 7 line, and the graffiti columnist for the bi-monthly magazine/catalogue YRB.

ANTONIO ZAYA is an editor and curator, who lives in Girona, Spain.

Customer Reviews

GRAFFITI NYC
Mr. Martinez hits the spot with this true-to-the-game pictorial of recent and current writers in NYC. It's drenched and drippy with no-excuses, raw street, straight up. The quotes by various writers are just as raw. Only trouble I had was navigating from the index to un-numbered pages when I wanted to reference particular photos. Aside, a must-have for anyone down with the most relevant art form of our day.

good book.
If you are looking for a book about pretty, glossy full color murals and pieces, don't buy this book. If you want a book about dirty, illegal, real graffiti, keep reading. The book is more of a photo essay on bombing, and the quotes throughout are great. I would recommend the book to graffiti fans, more casual readers should probably check out graffiti world or something like that.

eww
This book is just a complete waste of time. Its more of a photography book rather than graffiti. The pictures are either pictures of paint shoes, random people, or some good throw ups that get ruined by placing them on the crease. Nothing is labeled and no order is set. The quotes inside the book are good but either city officials or the same artists over and over. My recommendation is to buy another book.