320 pages Introduction by Greg Lamarche (Sp.One), overview of styles by Dave Villorente (Chino BYI), foreword by Sacha Jenkins 24 x 19 cm Language: English Hardcover, full colour Publisher: Letterform Archive Books 2026
Please note that this is a pre-order. We expect to receive the book in January 2027. All orders will be processed upon receipt of stock.
Thirty-six graffiti zines from the 1990s, gathered in one volume: Skills, IGTimes, Can Control, Graphic Scenes & Xplicit Language, Hole in the Ozone, Twelve Ounce Prophet, Hip Hop Tribe, While You Were Sleeping and Futureretroistic. Made on photocopiers and home computers while graffiti was being pushed off the New York trains and criminalised elsewhere, these small print runs travelled by mail and through a trade in photographs of burners, throw-ups and tags from every major metro area.
The book started as an exhibition at Letterform Archive in San Francisco (May 2023 to January 2024), built on the archive of Greg Lamarche, creator of Skills, with guest curation by Kel Troughton and Dave Villorente. Lamarche's introduction and Sacha Jenkins's foreword frame the material. For anyone who wants to read the 1990s scene in the form its writers gave it, this is the most direct entry point.
