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Book: While The City Sleeps- A Rough Guide to Sydney Graffiti in the 1980s
Author: Jason Dax Woodward
Hardcover
Published: 2023
Pages: 296
Language: English
Dimensions: 30.5 x 21.5 x 2.5 cm
Interviews with Sydney’s original 80’s graffiti pioneers such as 2MUCH – AGENT – DEAL – JOKER – KAGENT – KOSTE – MAISE – MR E – MYME – RAMA – SPICE – SPOOK – STYLZ – SWICH and others.
2kg of Old School Sydney Graffiti history. Stories about bank heists for $250000, murder and mayhem. Stories ranging from the first panels done in SYDNEY, the first wholecars to writers who did bank robberies.
Over 63,000 words and 730 pictures in this book so plenty to look at and and plenty to read. Over 130 artists included.
From the backcover:
WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS
Murder, bank robbery, and other real stories from the golden years of Sydney graffiti, 1984-1989.
In the early eighties, New York City style graffiti exploded like a pandemic through out the western world. Thousands of young folks were copying dance moves and graffiti styles they had seen in movies, music video clips and even on bubble gum cards, which created a visual tidal wave around the world. This book is a rough guide to a few hundred of the thousands of young folks who painted in Sydney during this period. Featuring over seven hundred photos, more than a dozen interviews and a brief synopsis of one hundred and seventy artists who painted back then. This is the first in a series of books exposing Sydney graffiti history from the 1980s.
Written by jason Dax Woodward, who like so many bombed hundreds of trains during this time period. He also wrote the books ‘Born To Bomb- Highlights From A Lowlife ‘and ‘Opening Sale- Handpainted Signs from Queensland’.
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