Must read Graffiti books?

[eastcoastrider27]

What are some must read graffiti books?

I can think of...

-Subway Art

-The Art of Getting Over

-Also Known As

What else is good?

[Crillz]

Beautiful Losers (not exclusively about graff but deals with a lot of graff artists)

Graffiti World

Extistencilism (Banksy)

Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall (Banksy)

Cut It Out (Banksy)

Satan's Bride (if you're into Neckface)

Street Logos

Stencil Graffiti

I would especially recommend Graffiti World, it's a big thick book filled with pictures from artists big and small across the globe.

[englandmj7]

Paint the earth with love, not chemicals......um.....

[mlproject]

- art of getting over

- AKA

- the art of rebellion I + II

- beautiful losers (graffiti going gallery)

- spraycan art (like subway art, but broader focus)

- freight train graffiti (hits everything from the first freights to monikers, etc)

- UP magazine from europe

- shepard fairey's new book (pretty unbelievable how much work this dude has cranked out)

there are few books out that have a lot of substance to them. a lot of the new ones like stencil graffiti/street logos/graffiti brazil just read like an inflated magazine.

[snugglepony]

pretty long list...

[eastcoastrider27]

Paint the earth with love, not chemicals

I get up, and recycle...

How enigmatic.

Thanks for the contributions everyone.

[evisu 2000]

dondi white.

[SLEEZY]

whos going to under pressure?

there are so many graffiti books out there its hard to know where to begin.

i would suggest the art of getting over as probably the best place to start. very well put together.

style wars is a must see. and subway art and spray can art are sort of companions to style wars.

that freight train graffiti book is pretty rad.

go to http://www.12ozprophet.com/forum/ for a whole shitload of awsome graffiti banter and gossip. (be sure to check out the channel zero section for hours and hours of entertainment aswell)

[Kodak]

Dondi, and some the others people have stated. I would say puregraffiti.com but they lost all their forums a long time ago.

[eastcoastrider27]

Thanks Sleezy. I've read ESPO's book, but that was over a year ago, so I'll give it another read. The blackbook format of the book is so genius.

Subway Art is such a great read. Ilove that era of graffiti.

I check out 12 oz from time to time, but there are so many obnoxious people on there it gets a little irritating.

[jwill]

pretty long list...

yea, Scrawl is a good one-I'd also suggest Barry Mcgee by Fondazione Prada

[Crillz]

Street Market doesn't actually deal with outdoor graff art but it does include a lot of indoor work by TWIST, ESPO, and REAS. I would also like to add The Buddy System by Barry McGee. Actually, make that ANY book featuring, or by McGee.