Photographs taken by RAP in Paris and around in the year 2001

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Size: 14,8 x 21 cm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 180
Language: –
Year: 2020
Publisher: Graffalife
Author: RAP
ISBN/EAN: –
Limited Edition: 100 copies, + Screenprint Postcard (Signed & numbered)

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 color panels in Vienna and hall of fame burners in Berlin, abandoned industrial black-and-white pieces and S-Bahn candy colored 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 realized at all. Don’t miss the chance to get the first print publication ever by one of Berlins top notch writers!

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Size: 22 x 19 cm
Cover: Hardcover (screen printed)
Pages: 100
Language: –
Year: 2020
Publisher: Hitzerot
Author: ROGER
ISBN/EAN: –

Andrea Nelli was in his twenties when he went to New York for the first time. He saw BIG-O 116, EVIL ERF 14, RAT FINK 131, SUPER KOOL 223 written on the walls. In the beginning he thought of them as strange ideograms but he was even more fascinated to find out that the inscriptions were actually names. He decided to archive this phenomenon by taking pictures and to make it the subject of the thesis for his degree on Literature. He got in touch with many cliques of writers that open him the doors of New York.
Big names, as COCO 144, were his guide. Graffiti a New York by Andrea Nelli is the re-edition of one of first books about Graffiti Writing, published for the first time in 1978.
This book conserves the original text, precious and rare document of an unthinkable research for that period. It contributes to the historical memory of Graffiti Writing with amazing pictures about the styles and the first tags of Manhattan Heights.
More than 100 pictures of Names and historical pieces photographed by Andrea Nelli accompany the text, true in the form and in the content.
Graffiti a New York is a true witness about Graffiti phenomenon in his early years of birth.

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Size: 17 x 25 cm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 190
Language: English
Year: 2012
Publisher: Wholetrain Press
Author: Andrea Nelli
ISBN/EAN: 978-88-976400-0-4

There has recently been a sharp increase in cases where corporations have been sued by street and graffiti artists because their artworks had been used and exploited without the artists’ authorisation, for example in advertising campaigns, as backdrops in promotional videos, or as decorating elements of products. This trend shows and confirms that these forms of art are vulnerable. They are actually more exposed to unauthorised exploitation (and destruction as well) than works of fine art, because they are placed in the public eye.
Protecting Art in the Street explains, with words and images, how copyright laws apply to street art and graffiti, and how they can be of help to creators within these artistic communities. Knowledge about these issues does matter. There has recently been a spike in legal actions or complaints against corporations and individuals that have tried to exploit commercially street artworks without the artists’ consent; and more importantly without sharing with them any profit. Also, legal actions have been brought by street artists to fight destruction of their pieces.
By adopting a simple language, Protecting Art in the Street constitutes an easy-to-understand guide aimed at navigating street artists and graffiti writers through otherwise difficult and intricate legal issues concerning the protection of their artistic outputs.

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Size: 13 x 21 cm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 68
Language: English
Year: 2020
Publisher: Dokument Press
Author: Enrico Bonadio
ISBN/EAN: 978-91-88369-35-2

100% Stahl, 100% provinziell!

Auf 288 Seiten erwarten den Betrachter großformatige Hochglanzfotos, der bisweilen unzulänglich dokumentierten Trainwriting-Kultur, aus der südlichsten Provinz des Alpenlandes. Es gilt diese kurzlebige Kunstform zu konservieren und den bislang unbekannten und „internetscheuen“ Protagonisten eine Plattform zu bieten. Provinz Schmierer zeigt eine kleine Auswahl atmosphärischer Bilder – über einer Dekade Trainwriting aus Kärnten.

Limitierte Auflage.

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Size: 29,7 x 21 cm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 288
Language: German
Year: –
Publisher: –
Author: –
ISBN/EAN: –

Above The Law Volume I: Graffiti on Passenger Trains is the definitive book about graffiti on passenger trains. The third book by Phil America, it captures the lives and work of some of the most well-known graffiti artists across the globe. Containing 225 pages of photos taken in metropolitan cities all around the world, Phil America immersed himself into this culture and documented it over the course of ten years. In these never before seen photos, we are taken into a dangerous and private world that most are unable to ever witness: deep into subway tunnels, over fences, under surveillance cameras and behind sensors. Each photograph captures a moment of freedom.

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Size: 21,6 x 27,9 cm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 225
Language: English
Year: 2015
Publisher: –
Author: Phil America
ISBN/EAN: 978-0-692-57058-6