Really a great overview of LA graffiti stretching from the old past to the almost-now present. Lots of the known names as well as some that you will not forget once you get this book. If you know of and appreciate Subway Art and want the second course, this is it and more. All photos are clear and well presented with excellent quotes that give insight into these artists’ methods and madness. Very Good layout with so much info and flicks that you can really open this book to any page and be drawn in. A nice balanced writing style that welcomes writers, enthusiasts, and newcomers alike. This book approaches Subway Art as one of the Bibles of graffiti art and will be a key element in pushing this art/vandalism form ahead into the future.
Rockers and Headbangers! what are your top 10 favorite albums of all time?
You might not like my list but these are just cd’s that i grew up on. I am just interested to see what people like now a-days.10.Radiohead- Cd Graffiti kid A9. system of a down-toxicity8. metallica’s ride the lightning7. iron maiden-number of the beast6.megadeth’s peace sells…but who’s buying5.rage against the machine’s renegades4.pink floyd-dark side of the moon3.led zeppelin-physical graffiti2. metallica-…..And Justice For ALL (i wore this album out haha)1. Tool-AEnimaPost your favorite albums and keep rockin forever!
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July 10th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
I had heard about this book through relatives and decided to pick it up.
It was great read. Very entertaining from start to finish. I would recommend this to anyone. Can’t wait to read her next book “Invisible Touch”.
July 11th, 2010 at 3:04 am
Angel loves doing art, but is still finding her place within the scope of it all. Her work is labeled “whimsical”, but she wants to up it to “realistic”. However, when bad boy Miguel approaches her saying she has the perfect style to be a great graffiti artist, well, what else can Angel do but say yes to lessons? But as the days go on, she gets wrapped up more and more in the sometimes seedy underbelly of the world of graffiti art. Will she be able to pull herself out before it’s too late?
I really enjoyed this book. Told in a very raw, honest, and realistic way, this novel portrays the Latino culture in a way I don’t think I’ve seen before in YA literature. The events in this novel feel very real and make you invest so much into Angel and her life, leading up to a killer climax. I almost cried while reading this book and that is extremely hard for someone to do. This book is highly recommended.
July 11th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
This book was a waste of time and money. sure it has a plot and a moral…but after you get past that there is nothing….i will likly deposit this book in a recycling bin after i am done with it.
July 12th, 2010 at 3:32 am
Yes, the character is spunky and interesting.
Yes the writing is vibrant.
But at the end, I still don’t see anything great about vandalism. The tacked on ending that graffiti isn’t __just__ about illegal vandalism but could be about public murals and graffiti clubs doesn’t work for me.
If you like graffiti style art and can get past the illegal part, this is a great book.
July 12th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
This is fine documentation of a unique art form – gritty and powerful pictures that tell the story of a unique art form no longer observable but indicative of the spirit of the sixties. Jon Naar’s pictures grab the images and Norman Mailer’s introduction puts grafitti in the larger context of art and artfulness. The silent taggers who never thought of themselves as political show us politics of another kind – thanks to Naar the record of their work is here for all to see and appreciate
July 13th, 2010 at 2:51 am
The original edition of this pioneering work has long been a scarce and much sought-after item in the second-hand book trade, a treasure for collectors and for today’s graffiti artists and enthusiasts. It is therefore wonderful to see it once again made readily and widely available.
Mailer’s compelling text remains unchanged, but, while those familiar with “The Faith” will recognize many old graffiti favorites, it is a joy to find that this edition includes a good number of additional images, while Naar himself notes his satisfaction that the photographs – now mostly uncropped – have been allowed to serve his original intent of showing the spirit of that time and place: mid-70s New York city.
ItBooks imprint of Harper Collins are to be congratulated on the excellent design and the very high quality of the photo-reproduction & printing. It all does justice to a seminal work celebrating the life and inventiveness of those many street “taggers”, and it is fitting that the cover displays, as Naar had originally intended it should, a photograph of a group of these kids of 30+ years ago. This work is a true document of its time and place. Go buy a copy now!
July 13th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Oh! The Bronx got famous! I remember when graffiti started –the weird messages we began to see all over- the magical subways that began to pour out of dark tunnels. The elevated #4 Train. This captues it, the mystery, ,anger, desparation, and joy of those times and our times now. So glad we have not been forgotten, so glad the Bronx as it was lives on in these pages. Bronx in the house! God Bless.
July 14th, 2010 at 3:30 am
When The Faith of Graffiti was first published, in 1974, modern graffiti-writing culture was just reaching the first of its several ascendancies. The streets and trains of New York were `destroyed’ with the writers’ tags. This book was the first to look at proliferate tagging not as a nuisance but as a sub-cultural movement. Jon Naar photographed his New York environment over an intensive, two-week period to produce an extraordinary time capsule. Norman Mailer later lent his voice to the project with a flawed, but well-meant, interpretation of the seemingly foreign values that had taken hold in this American city. Even though the book soon went out-of-print, it quickly rose to, and has maintained, the status of a cult classic among writers in the graffiti underground.
Now, some thirty-five years later, The Faith of Graffiti has just been re-released in its second edition. While the title remains unchanged, and its content includes virtually all of the photographs and text of the original, the book has been entirely redesigned. More photographs are included and the presentation packs a stronger wallop. The principal explanation for this is not the inclusion of additional imagery, but that Jon Naar’s photographs are now presented full-frame. There is a greater sense of context associated with each image. We see the compositions as the photographer saw them. We, the book’s audience, no longer need to dress up graffiti as graphic design in order to appreciate it.
After we flip past Mailer’s introductory text, it is as if we, the reader, are riding a train back in the day. It is a magical train, one not bound to its rails, and our trip takes us through many of the old neighborhoods. We catch a succession of fleeting glimpses framed by our window, this book in our hands. We see spray-painted markings and may even recognize some of the names. We see fellow travelers and random pedestrians, most as absorbed in their own world as we are in ours, oblivious to the graffiti around them. We see tags on trains, trucks, on walls and on the pavement. We catch glimpses of the writers themselves, although our opportunity to converse with them is preciously short. We see the social landscape of a time gone by. Lights flash as we enter a tunnel. In momentary darkness, we contemplate the bright, neon-colored tags now seared into the backs of our eyes. Eventually we reach our destination and step back onto the wintry platform of our present concerns. Exiting the train, we carry with us the look, taste and smell of New York in the 1970’s.