{"product_id":"jon-naar-the-birth-of-graffiti","title":"Jon Naar - The Birth of Graffiti","description":"\u003cp\u003e172 pages\u003cbr\u003eEdited by Jon Naar\u003cbr\u003ePhotograph(s) by Jon Naar\u003cbr\u003e20 x 24 cm \u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Prestel\u003cbr\u003e2007\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\"\u003eIn the spring of 1973, photographer Jon Naar moved through New York to capture a visual eruption still in its infancy: the signatures, tags and hand-drawn lettering spreading across subway cars, tenement façades and parked trucks. That campaign first produced \u003cem\u003eThe Faith of Graffiti\u003c\/em\u003e (1974) — the earliest book-length study of New York graffiti, prefaced by Norman Mailer and long held as a founding reference by the writers who followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Birth of Graffiti\u003c\/em\u003e extends that gesture. More than one hundred and thirty previously unpublished images from the same body of work are brought together here alongside a selection of the most striking photographs of 1974. Reproduced full-frame, with faithful attention to the original colour, they restore the texture of a vanished New York — the city before the piece and the mural, when a name written by hand, often trailed by its zip code, was enough to exist. Sacha Jenkins situates the corpus within the longer history of a youth culture born in the street and since grown into a driving force in art, fashion and music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\"\u003eNot reprinted in nearly two decades, the title has grown scarce on the secondary market, where it now trades above its original price. A reference volume for any library devoted to the origins of writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prestel","offers":[{"title":"Second-hand (very good condition)","offer_id":58252271944015,"sku":null,"price":49.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2424\/8147\/files\/JonNaar-TheBirthofGraffiti.jpg?v=1784310086","url":"https:\/\/www.legrandj.eu\/products\/jon-naar-the-birth-of-graffiti","provider":"Le Grand Jeu","version":"1.0","type":"link"}