162 pages 29.5 x 21 cm Language: English Paperback 2004
The final quarterly instalment of 2004 from Britain's most authoritative graffiti periodical, and a particularly strong one. Founded in 1992 and running until 2011, Graphotism was for two decades the definitive international record of writing culture, notoriously trusted by a scene wary of outside media. This issue opens with a guest editorial by Martha Cooper — reflecting on stepping away from graffiti photography in the mid-1980s and being drawn back two decades later through the Hip Hop Files tour — and closes with a full feature on her work, her own words framing a return to a scene she helped make visible.
Between the two, a dense line-up: BUA on painting inside a landscape defined by Futura, Revolt and Lee; Autograf's photographed portraits of the New York street-art elite; The Wallnuts as a crew grown into a sprawling family; EGR, refusing the "female artist" label for the plainer fact of being an artist; and UNDNYED's step-by-step style feature from the graf-inspired clothing label, alongside Graffiti World and DPM pages. A representative document of mid-2000s international writing at the height of the magazine's influence — and increasingly collectible now that the full run is long out of print.
