A new FRENCH language book about a special type of body painting done by Keag and Sore. The photo’s sure look fun.
But how to do body painting while remaining true to our roots?
Painting a naked girl in a room is too easy
From flopiart.com via allcityblog.fr
Update:
allcityblog.fr added more photo’s from the book.
As the release date draws near the “Will I go to hell for this” team put up a website and a facebook page. You can check out a preview of the book that will feature 75 interviews and more than 600 photo’s on 264 pages in either the Danish or the UK edition.
The book will be available at all good bookstores in Denmark from April 19th 2010 and will be distributed in the international graffiti network. Stay tuned for information about the release party on our blog.
In case you didn’t get your photo’s sent in for the first one, they are accepting photo’s for a possible part two.
More at Will I go to hell for this via ILG/lars
Safecoolok posted kidpele’s intro to the Kegr section of the new book Like Lipstick Traces.
Buy Like Lipstick Traces from dokument.org 339 SEK
A spectacular photographic journey through the lenses of 13 graffiti artists. 13 graffiti writers, 2 years, 600 unpublished Polaroids. Like Lipstick Traces shows the everyday life of 13 graffiti writers.
Artists featured: Aroe (UK), C.B.S (DE), Dumbo (IT), Honet (FR), Kegr (DK), O’Clock (FR), Os Cururus (BR), Rate (USA), Remio (NOR), Rocky (ES), Scan (CA), Smash (CH), The E.R.S (BE).
After the book run through 5 days ago by graffhead here is an actual review from the San Gabriel Valley tribune. And its a very positive one.
The photographs that are the core of the book are remarkable. And what is remarkable about the book overall is that the images of graffiti are the catalyst for a sweeping exposition of the social and political history of Mexican Americans. Chastanet and Gribble generally succeed in illuminating these issues through the phenomenon of cholo writing. Yet, the book bogs down when the narrative veers from accessible historiography into a questionable sociology-tinged explication of “what all this means.” A bit too academic.
But, on balance, it’s a readable, visually engaging book that will let you know a bit more about urban Chicanos than you probably knew. And, whether you regard it as art of a public nuisance (or perhaps both), it’s worth learning about.
If you have considered buying Cholo Writing: Latino Gang Graffiti in Los Angeles from Dokument Press then graffhead.com has made a video to help you make up your mind. As well as a short review here.
The book is full of pictures of gang graffiti taken in the streets of Los Angeles, as early as, 1962. Co-author/photographer, Howard Gribble describes his motivation and method for taking the pictures. He, as well, describes many of the pictures featured in the book.
Buy from dokument for 198 SEK.
Review at graffhead.com.
Vandalog has decided to giveaway two copies of the re-released “The Faith of Graffiti.” Read about it on the site.
When it was first published in 1974, The Faith of Graffiti was the first book to take a serious look at graffiti. In 1974, Jon Naar’s photos and Norman Mailer’s essay gave the graffiti movement some mainstream legitimacy, as Mailer was one of the first to call writers artists.
To enter the contest, you can either comment on this post (make sure to include your real email address, otherwise you can’t win because I won’t be able to contact you), or go on twitter and tweet a link to this post along with the hashtag “#vandalog”. But you have to enter before 6pm (GMT) on Wednesday, January 13th. After that, I’ll randomly pick two winners. Good luck.
Photos from Jon Naar.
Psyre på writersbench.dk har skrevet en lille boganmeldelse, der nok vil være interessant hvis du har overvejet at købe den nye bog “All City Writers”.
til min store begejstring/skræk at dette er en bibel udover det sædvanlige i et omfang på lidt over 400 sider og foruden en masse dejligt billedmateriale er den bestående af tætskrevne spalter i skrift størrelse 6, som måske rent visuelt kan virke lidt tørt, men indholdsmæssigt er det rigtig interessant læsning!
Af danske skrivere kan der nævnes Rens, Sek, Sabe, Cmp, Bates.. [...]
Det er til dato en af de allermest tilfredstillende graffiti bog køb jeg har gjort mig..
Hvis man er til god læsning og vil bag historien om europæisk graffiti kan jeg i høj grad anbefale denne bog!
410 full color pages, 33cm X 48cm – portrait size, coated and uncoated papers, hard cover, more
than 250 writers involved, 1230 pictures, 620 articles, 50 infographics, fully English language
version and Italian section in mother lang uage limited version.
Læs indlægget her.
Mere info hos allcitywriters.com og den kan købes her ilovecarhartt.com.
