Description
Title: Eine Stadt Wird Bunt
Subtitle: Hamburg Graffiti History 1980-1999
Authors: Sylvia Necker, Carsten Heinze, Dennis Kraus, KP Flügel, Christian Luda, Kathleen Göttsche & Lars Klingenberg, Mathias Becker and Rik Reinking.
Editors: Oliver „Davis“ Nebel, Frank Petering, Mirko Reisser and Andreas „Cario“ Timm.
Hardcover
Pages: 560 pages, over 1300 photos.
Language: German with additional english texts.
Dimensios: 32 x 25 x 5 cm. /12.6 x 9.8 x 2 inch.
Weight: 3,5 Kg!!!
Shipping starts at 1st December 2021!
After more than 5 years of research and implementation, the comprehensive documentation of the development of the Hamburg graffiti scene will appear on December 1, 2021.
On 560 pages, the picture-text volume traces in great detail how a sprayer scene slowly formed in the Hanseatic city from the beginning of the 1980s. Over 1,300 photos show graffiti pioneers and their work. Texts allow contemporary witnesses to have their say and illuminate the social and cultural circumstances that contributed to the emergence of the subculture in Hamburg.
Whether rap, DJ-ing, breaking or graffiti: Hip-Hop, which originated in the USA in the early 1970s, has long been at home all over the world. But the music, the dance and the spray art were not simply copied and consumed in the places they reached on their way around the globe. Rather, the following applies: The culture was and is always reinterpreted in local contexts and charged with meaning. And wherever hip-hop culture has found a home, a very unique story of local appropriation can be told.
The Hamburg graffiti scene is still very much rooted in the 1980s and 1990s. Its protagonists are regarded as pioneers not only within the community – they have had a decisive influence on the visual appearance of Hamburg.
The publication includes an exclusive collection of photos and statements from graffiti writers active at the time, as well as academic essays by renowned authors, presenting graffiti as a well-connected, subcultural phenomenon and offers information about the practice of appropriating the public space.
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