All City- The Book About Taking Space- USED

Description

Title: All City
Subtitle: The Book About Taking Space
Author: Paul 107
Paperback
Language: English
Pages: 176
Dimensions: 17,7 x 17,7 x 1,3 cm. / 7 x 7 x 0.5 inch.
Published: 2003
Condition: Cover: 9.5/10 Inside: 10/10

All City… this book captures the side of graffiti they don’t talk about in art galleries!

All City: The Book About Taking Space is an in-depth look at the world of graffiti and graffiti writers. It includes rare interviews with celebrated, yet anonymous, graffiti writers. The book won the 2004/2005 Applied Arts magazine Design and Advertising Award for Complete Book Design and the 2004 Writers Notes Book Award in the legacy category.

This is no art-gallery graffiti. Going all-city is about leaving your mark, taking space, and then taking more. Featuring stunning photographs and interviews with legendary graffiti writers from around the world, All-City takes an inside look at the lives, motives, tools, and techniques of some of the most obsessive vandals of all time.

This book comes from the creators of Under Pressure magazine and gives a fascinating insight into the world of graffiti bombing. In All City, hardcore writers talk in their own words about their passion, their fascination. What is their motivation What does their life look like? How did they become interested in something that is seen by the world as vandalism? All City studies the technique and “tools” that writers use and explains the jargon used. Through themes such as Getting up, Crews, Cross outs, Markers and Mops, Stickers and Etch tags, the reader not only gains insight into the bombing scene, but also receives unsolicited tips on how to get started yourself: What to do if you are stopped by the police, where and how to get gloves, how to throw up, how to work with paint rollers, how best to take photos of your work, how to make a marker and ink yourself and an interview with KR about his own ink brand KRink.
The 176-page book is packed with color photos of tags, throw ups, crossouts and burners, mostly from the graffiti legends themselves. With interviews of Colorz VEP, Earl VAD, Creez GT, Flow SAT, Sake HYH, Min One RTW, Chino BYI, Desa MTA, Rebel SC, Amaze PVC, Grey PVC.