If you see the movie, you will understand the title for this review! I had this on video (taped from TV, as alot of us used to do as kids!) and I watched it until the tape unraveled in the VCR. It’s a bonafide classic for anyone who grew up in this era.
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July 31st, 2010 at 10:30 pm
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!
August 1st, 2010 at 9:43 am
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
August 1st, 2010 at 10:14 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.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:12 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.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:21 pm
This movie is alright. It’s great to watch only because it’s from that era. If you’re really looking for a good film, watch Style Wars. That is a classic and it goes into depth about graffiti, breaking and hip hop. The acting in this movie sucks, but it’s kind of cool to see some of the renouned artists. Rent on Netflix and only buy if you like to collect stuff from this period.
August 3rd, 2010 at 9:52 am
Anyone that really wants to understand how hip-hop developed from out the ghetto streets into what it has become needs to start here. It’s not supposed to be a superbly acted movie as it is a movie that has legends of hip-hop at the center of the film. Cold Crush, Funky Four +1, Grand Master Flash, Busy Bee, Grand Wizard Theodore, etc. … this is how hip-hop looked in 1982. Period. If you want to understand that, if you want to understand the history of this culture … this is the most crucial film you could own. Without a doubt.
August 3rd, 2010 at 9:48 pm
For my boyfriend who grew up in NYC during heavy hip-hop times, this film is a must have.
August 4th, 2010 at 10:23 am
This was a rare find….
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August 4th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Received the product in Excellent condition & arrived in good time considering it was an international post to Australia! Would recommend to anyone! Great service & really helps support trusting service regarding online shopping with Amazon:)
August 5th, 2010 at 10:26 am
Beat Street has great music, Great Breakin’ , And Tagging, but it seems as one big cheesy musical do-good movie(with artsy/ballet music and a bunch of kids who should have better parenting) and of course what’s with all the berets? of course Harry belanfonte(Mr. Fidel Lover) made the flick. other than being a Great **Hip Hop/Dance Flick** with Kool Herc!! and many others! It’s worth watching.(Breakin’ Is Better)
August 5th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
i recieved my item with in just a few days. Thank you we love the movie!
August 6th, 2010 at 9:50 am
This movie is a true hip hop classic that defined an era in my childhood. I have been looking for a particlular song that was played briefly in the movie, but it was never released on the soundtrack. I am not even sure of the name, but it is from the scene at the Burning Spear night club after the Christmas show performance. Kenny starts slow dancing with Tracy to this song, but I only have some of the words but no artist. Can anyone HELP me find out who sings it? These are some of the lyrics:
“Well alright, just look at you now
Nobody knows how you got it, but everyone says kid you got it, so now that I know that you got it, we can make it right.
You’re one of the few, girl you got it, I feel it in you, girl you got it, I’m telling you now that you got it. We can make it right
Yes you might say there’s a chance and we’re taking it, boy it’s up to you, so feel that nerve in your heart that’s stinging ya take this breath of my love I’m bringing ya Keep on spinning the feeling round and round
Nobody knows how we got it, but everything shows kid we got it, and now that we know that we got it better do it right, better do it right, baby I know that you got it, oh it feels so good thatyou got it.”
August 6th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Graffiti World fails where it shines the most: pretending to be the most comprehensive collection up to date of graffiti related art.
The dellusion of offering a quasi encyclopedic work should be enough to deride what is a coffee table book at best. It offers a large selection of artists each given typically one or two page spreads, with a small paragraph ranging from the generic, to the gratuitous, and occasionally also insightful.
A brief historic overview serves also in part to frame the work, and while it tries to broaden the scope across centuries and continents it quickly narrows itself down to the inevitable and predictable graffiti developed in New York in the late 70’s and 80’s that has influenced generations. Not that it delves in any depth into why or exactly how it happened, and the ways in which it became such an iconic reference, but it is perfunctorily used to narrow down the actual scope of the book and the work offered.
While there are some glaring omissions and random picks, it is true that it offers a typical selection of some of the most recognized artist in this segment, but that it is not its biggest flaw. “Street Art From Five Continents” is the worst lie that the book does not even pretend to hold very well. The volume is structured around two large parts, one for the Americas (which is still predominantly USA based) and one to Europe, the rest of the continents are lumped into a small section towards the end of the book called “The Rest of the World” . And while the brief paragraphs dedicated to each depicted country are relatively adequate, these are also fairly general and often instead of adding much to the dialogue risk feeding stereotypes.
Whether a marketing decision, or a creative one, pretending to tell stories about a holistic approach to graffiti and urban art hurts badly a book that otherwise offers a decent sampling of some areas of urban culture in a couple of world regions.
August 7th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Horrible. Not happy with Seller. I never even received the book, way after it was supposed to be shipped.
August 7th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
First of all, there’s no way you can look through this book in one sitting — there’s an exhausting amount of art in this book. A lot of the artwork is so intricate that you could spend minutes to hours studying and analysing the pieces. Although I bought this as a gift for someone else, I did get a chance to look through the book before giving it away. What I liked was that the street art wasn’t just a collection of idiotic, poorly written names on walls (I hate tagging). Rather, these pieces were often thought-provoking political and social commentaries, or just genuine pieces of art. I really didn’t get a chance to read any of the text, but even if it was all complete gibberish, the photos of the artwork were enough to make this a truly great book.