Graffiti NYC [Turtleback]

'[Martinez] is an impresario of graffiti'The Londonist online, February 2007

'This isn't about the artwork, it's about being a
writer...Graffiti writers who're into bombing should love it!'

`This exhilarating selection of their work...takes the reader on
an "all-city" tour of New York.'

`offers a from-the-trenches look at the work of over 100 of the
very best writers practising today.'

New York City is where the quintessential contemporary people's art of graffiti was born. The top "writers" go "all city" when their tags can be seen throughout the five boroughs. This exhilarating selection of their work, assembled by Hugo Martinez, a leading authority on the history of street art in NYC, takes the reader on an "all-city" tour of New York, displaying the extraordinary range of its taggers and bombers. More than two hundred photographs showcase the artwork of the most prominent names of the past five years, including CASE 2, KEZ, MOSCO, SKUF, VFR, and MQ. As graffiti comes to be embraced as a medium in its own right, its most important practitioners in NYC confirm the power and creativity of this vital contemporary language.

HUGO MARTINEZ is the director of the ALL CITY project in New York, developing installations and exhibitions featuring the most significant historical and contemporary graffiti artists. NATO, who is now a photographer, was a New York graffiti writer, "King" of the Number 7 line, and the graffiti columnist for the bi-monthly magazine/catalogue YRB. ANTONIO ZAYA is an editor and curator, who lives in Girona, Spain.