Description
Book title: Street Art Street Life
Subtitle: From the 1950s to Now
Author(s): Katherine A Bussard, Frazer Ward, Lydia Lee
Hardcover
Published: 2008 by Aperture/Bronx Museum of the Arts
Pages: 112
Language: English
Dimensions: 26 x 23.5 x 1.5 cm. / 10.2 x 9.3 x 0.6 inch.
Street Art, Street Life examines the street as subject matter, venue and source of inspiration for contemporary artists and photographers from the late 1950s to the present. This unique volume includes street photography; documentation of performance, events and artworks presented in the street; works using material from the street; and examples of street culture. Through works by more than 30 world-renowned artists, including Vito Acconci, Amy Arbus, Sophie Calle, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, William Klein, Robin Rhode, Martha Rosler, Jamal Shabazz and Garry Winogrand, Street Art, Street Life explores a range of themes related to the street–as arena for political and cultural expression, violence and crime, gender roles in an urban context, advertising and commerce and as counterpoint to museums and other traditional art venues. This volume is published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name organized by Lydia Yee, Curator at the Barbican Art Gallery in London and Senior Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York. Yee contributes an essay, along with Frazer Ward and Katherine Bussard.
Reviews:
“[The photographs] belong to a genre known as street photography. They are documents of the past: shots of everyday people in the 1950s living out their private lives in public, as city dwellers are wont to do; shots of artists in the 1960s and ’70s using the street as a studio, theater and laboratory as artists rarely do anymore, at least in New York.” — Holland Cotter –The New York Times
“Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now takes an extensive look at how life in the city has inspired artists to pick up a camera or canvas and document it all, from sidewalk performances to political protests to wild urban fashions.” — Araceli Cruz –The Village Voice
“The dynamic photography in Street Art, Street Life documents everything from the humorous to the heartbreaking, dating from the 1950’s to today. The collection includes William Klein’s disturbing portrait of a young boy aiming a gun directly at the camera, stills from Yoko Ono’s media-skewering film ‘Rape’ and Jamel Shabazz’s colorful shots of hip-hop culture in 1980’s Brooklyn. These pictures powerfully express their thousand allotted words, telling the stories that lie in wait around any given streetcorner.” –Modern Tonic
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