97 pages Edited by Martha Cooper Photographs by Martha Cooper 16.5 x 16.5 cm Language: English Hardback Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher 2008
Because they are freely accessible in large quantities, postal stickers have long been a preferred substrate used by artists to get up. With ample time to draw and tag on these stickers in private, artists that use stickers minimize risks and maximize effect.
Martha Cooper has been photographing hip-hop and graffiti cultures since the late 1970s, an obsession that began in New York City and has since taken her all over the world. Going Postal features Cooper's favorite handmade postal stickers found during her travels. Wether done by some of the scene's best-known artists, like FAUST, STAIN and COSBE, or the anonymous, Going Postal documents how an old-school method has burgeoned into another rich facet of the world's graffiti cultures.
