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According to the introduction by Antonio Zaya (in collaboration with Ken Bensinger), the idea behind GRAFFITI NYC is "based on a fundamental conviction that graffiti is not an anthropological phenomenon to be dissected, not a social malady to be cured, but a legitimate aesthetic and cultural movement, born of a revolutionary spirit and a will to resistance." The trade paperback, assembled by longtime graffiti champion Hugo Martinez, is not about corporate-sponsored, city-sanctioned street art of the kind recently found at the Brooklyn Museum, in Chelsea galleries, and inside and outside 11 Spring St. GRAFFITI NYC documents the real deal, the writers, bombers, and taggers who lurk in the shadows of the five boroughs bearing cans of spray paint and the need to be heard. Street art involves putting pretty pictures in public places, which is its own kind of message; graffiti, which was born and raised in New York, is rebellion, a social and political act from the underrepresented, the tossed aside, the forgotten.

 

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BRUZ on a Brooklyn roof in 2001, photo by NATO, from GRAFFITI NYC

 

"The act of writing is an obsessive act," RATE explains in the book. "If they make graf legal, I’ll stop," adds NOXER. GRAFFITI NYC also includes quotes from such legends as MICO, KEZ 5, CASE 2, and NATO on such subjects as graffiti as art, living on the edge, fighting the status quo, the inherent dangers, and institutional stereotyping and racism. In addition, the book features the words of such anti-graf crusaders as Peter F. Vallone Jr., Rudy Giuliani, Mayor Bloomberg, and Officer Eddie Segui of the NYPD Graffiti Habitual Offender Suppression Team (GHOST). NATO, who took most of the photos in the book, captures the work of the writers mentioned above as well as REVS, DARKS, TECK, FADE, SI, SKUF, and many others. The throw-ups might not be as aesthetically pleasing to the general public as the expansive murals found at the legal spot known as 5 Pointz in Queens, but that’s not what graf is about. "Writers will tell you that art doesn’t have to be beautiful," Martinez told us one afternoon in the "Road Show" U-Hauls, which will be stopping at various bookstores on weekends through February. Draped over the trucks is a yellow vinyl sheet being tagged by SNAKE 1, RATE, VFR, MOSCO, and others; inside is a slide show of all the photos in the book and more. Somewhere close by is the Vandal Squad, which is following the U-Hauls in the hopes of arresting a writer or two.

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According to the introduction by Antonio Zaya (in collaboration with Ken Bensinger), the idea behind GRAFFITI NYC is "based on a fundamental conviction that graffiti is not an anthropological phenomenon to be dissected, not a social malady to be cured, but a legitimate aesthetic and cultural movement, born of a revolutionary spirit and a will to resistance." The trade paperback, assembled by longtime graffiti champion Hugo Martinez, is not about corporate-sponsored, city-sanctioned street art of the kind recently found at the Brooklyn Museum, in Chelsea galleries, and inside and outside 11 Spring St. GRAFFITI NYC documents the real deal, the writers, bombers, and taggers who lurk in the shadows of the five boroughs bearing cans of spray paint and the need to be heard. Street art involves putting pretty pictures in public places, which is its own kind of message; graffiti, which was born and raised in New York, is rebellion, a social and political act from the underrepresented, the tossed aside, the forgotten.

 

bruzroof.jpg

BRUZ on a Brooklyn roof in 2001, photo by NATO, from GRAFFITI NYC

 

"The act of writing is an obsessive act," RATE explains in the book. "If they make graf legal, I’ll stop," adds NOXER. GRAFFITI NYC also includes quotes from such legends as MICO, KEZ 5, CASE 2, and NATO on such subjects as graffiti as art, living on the edge, fighting the status quo, the inherent dangers, and institutional stereotyping and racism. In addition, the book features the words of such anti-graf crusaders as Peter F. Vallone Jr., Rudy Giuliani, Mayor Bloomberg, and Officer Eddie Segui of the NYPD Graffiti Habitual Offender Suppression Team (GHOST). NATO, who took most of the photos in the book, captures the work of the writers mentioned above as well as REVS, DARKS, TECK, FADE, SI, SKUF, and many others. The throw-ups might not be as aesthetically pleasing to the general public as the expansive murals found at the legal spot known as 5 Pointz in Queens, but that’s not what graf is about. "Writers will tell you that art doesn’t have to be beautiful," Martinez told us one afternoon in the "Road Show" U-Hauls, which will be stopping at various bookstores on weekends through February. Draped over the trucks is a yellow vinyl sheet being tagged by SNAKE 1, RATE, VFR, MOSCO, and others; inside is a slide show of all the photos in the book and more. Somewhere close by is the Vandal Squad, which is following the U-Hauls in the hopes of arresting a writer or two.

 

 

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According to the introduction by Antonio Zaya (in collaboration with Ken Bensinger), the idea behind GRAFFITI NYC is "based on a fundamental conviction that graffiti is not an anthropological phenomenon to be dissected, not a social malady to be cured, but a legitimate aesthetic and cultural movement, born of a revolutionary spirit and a will to resistance." The trade paperback, assembled by longtime graffiti champion Hugo Martinez, is not about corporate-sponsored, city-sanctioned street art of the kind recently found at the Brooklyn Museum, in Chelsea galleries, and inside and outside 11 Spring St. GRAFFITI NYC documents the real deal, the writers, bombers, and taggers who lurk in the shadows of the five boroughs bearing cans of spray paint and the need to be heard. Street art involves putting pretty pictures in public places, which is its own kind of message; graffiti, which was born and raised in New York, is rebellion, a social and political act from the underrepresented, the tossed aside, the forgotten.

 

bruzroof.jpg

BRUZ on a Brooklyn roof in 2001, photo by NATO, from GRAFFITI NYC

 

"The act of writing is an obsessive act," RATE explains in the book. "If they make graf legal, I’ll stop," adds NOXER. GRAFFITI NYC also includes quotes from such legends as MICO, KEZ 5, CASE 2, and NATO on such subjects as graffiti as art, living on the edge, fighting the status quo, the inherent dangers, and institutional stereotyping and racism. In addition, the book features the words of such anti-graf crusaders as Peter F. Vallone Jr., Rudy Giuliani, Mayor Bloomberg, and Officer Eddie Segui of the NYPD Graffiti Habitual Offender Suppression Team (GHOST). NATO, who took most of the photos in the book, captures the work of the writers mentioned above as well as REVS, DARKS, TECK, FADE, SI, SKUF, and many others. The throw-ups might not be as aesthetically pleasing to the general public as the expansive murals found at the legal spot known as 5 Pointz in Queens, but that’s not what graf is about. "Writers will tell you that art doesn’t have to be beautiful," Martinez told us one afternoon in the "Road Show" U-Hauls, which will be stopping at various bookstores on weekends through February. Draped over the trucks is a yellow vinyl sheet being tagged by SNAKE 1, RATE, VFR, MOSCO, and others; inside is a slide show of all the photos in the book and more. Somewhere close by is the Vandal Squad, which is following the U-Hauls in the hopes of arresting a writer or two.

 

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