Subway Art by Martha Cooper, Henry Chalfant
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Book Reviews of Subway Art
Book Review: 10 out of 10 no doubt
Summary: 5 Stars
this book along with spraycan art,getting up,stylewars,wild style,beat street,countless video clips & so on started the world wide graffiti and hip hop culture. when i first got this book seven years ago ive spent a good 20 hours studying it. this book is well known as the most stolen book in the u.k from the set of two " graff bibles " spraycan art being the other one if you don't have this book and you like old school ny trains from where it all started you really need to get this book MUST BUY.Book Review: Subway art: - visually impressive, a graf "bible"!
Summary: 5 Stars
Although a bit superficial textually 'Subway Art' could be considered a good introduction into graffiti culture. This book is visually quite impressive and just the extensive amount of photos make this book a good buy. 'Subway Art' is and has been a true inspiration for many graffiti writers all over the world (be it good or bad!) and therefore it is a true 'bible' of the graffiti culture. However, better books about graf-culture have been written but not too many photographed.Book Review: The Bible
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is THE book for graffiti writers. If you haven't heard of this book or haven't read it, what is wrong with you. This book manages to cover all aspects of graffiti in little over 100 pages. The book is chock full of the best pictures of the Kings of old school graffiti. This book is a must for toys as well as experieced writers. If you are into graffiti you will be into this book in a major way, but you don't have to take my word for it.Book Review: Not a Bible
Summary: 5 Stars
This is no BIBLE but it is a good book. It shows some of the most reputed artist in NYC in their golden years of spray painting artwork on the subway. (which is no longer done due to metallic trains and buffing) The reason why people were pissed off about graffiti in those days was because most of it sucked and few could write...most people were tagging up NYC and making it look like a slum. A lot of guys scratch the glass on the new subways in NYC.Book Review: Best of the early graffiti books
Summary: 5 Stars
Not the first NYC subway graffiti book (that was Norman Mailer's 1974 "Faith of Graffiti"), nor the first to contain an article about it (that appears to be Kochman's 1971 "Rappin' And Stylin' Out"), but this is the best of the early books.
It is genre defining.
Great photos, decent explanation of styles and techniques.
The visual companion to the "Style Wars" film.