TAG-Paris-New York-Sao Paulo- USED

Tags, signatures executed in the moment, are often misunderstood and considered as a simple degradation. They are nevertheless the origin of graffiti, and in some cases are virtuoso worthy of the greatest calligraphers. This photographic subject of great richness focuses on three world scenes of the discipline: Paris, New York and Sao Paulo. By nature ephemeral, tags are archived here, safeguarding a heritage that is bound to disappear. Beyond the hundreds of photographs that offer a unique look at this production, this book also contains the exclusive testimonials of some forty renowned taggers. Anecdotes, technical details, lived experiences, confessions without false pretenses allow to discover this movement of the interior. At the end of the book, many boxes offer tools for understanding and reading tags.

The authors of the book TAG went to meet the taggers in 3 major cities, high places of the discipline: New York where it all began, São Paulo with its pixo variant, and of course Paris and its multitude of styles, the old school and new school. They unveil in their book ten years of archives, a unique opportunity to discover the different handstyles through a selection of specialists in the field, for example Kooce, Tore, Apostle, Popay, MaxyT, Rizot, Colorz, Horfé, Zevs or Sonick to name a few.

To go further in the analysis of the phenomenon, the clichés are accompanied by quotations writers themselves who offer a raw and unaltered vision of their passion. The book is both a good source of archives and photos for tag lovers, as well as an indispensable guide for all those who want to know more and go further in the practice of this complex and exclusive fringe graffiti.