160 pages Edited by “Skipper” Ward Merrill Hooper Jr. Photograph(s) by "Skipper" Ward Merrill Jr. Foreword by Chris Daze Ellis 22,3 x 20 cm Language: English Hardback Publisher: Urban Spree Books 2026
Polaroid SX-70 Black Book is an intimate collection of vintage Polaroids from the early 80s focused on New York City graffiti writers. These portraits tell the story of a pioneering graffiti generation, who went to influence generations to come through graffiti and hip hop. The book catches them at an early time, in what in retrospect seems like an age of innocence: young, free, hopeful. At the verge of commercial success, in this unique NYC effervescence of clubbing, art, graffiti, dereliction, crime and excitement.
