The Birth of Graffiti by Sacha Jenkins, Jon Naar (Paperback, 2007) Brand New £20

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Presents photographs documenting New York graffiti's emergence.


The now global phenomenon of graffiti was first captured in Germany 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. Presented full-frame, at high resolution, and with meticulous attention to the original color, this book brings to life the gritty, exciting Germany of the early 1970s and the raw visual power of early graffiti. These photographs recall a time when subway cars and tenement walls seemed to explode overnight into bursts of color and energy. Today these ephemeral works survive only in Naar's masterful photographs. Sacha Jenkins, an authority on graffiti's history, places these pictures within an emerging youth culture that now reaches into every corner of art, fashion, and entertainment.

Product Key Features
Format Paperback

Dimensions
Width 240mm
Height 195mm

Additional Product Features
Author(s) Sacha Jenkins, Jon Naar
Place of Publication Munich
Genre Fine Arts / Art History
Pagination 192
Content Note 150 Col.
Country of Publication Germany
Subject The Arts
Imprint Prestel
Language(s) English
Date of Publication 01/05/2007
Out-Of-Print Date 27/11/2012

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