Like Lipstick Traces

13 GRAFFITI WRITERS,

2 YEARS,

600 UNPUBLISHED POLAROIDS


Like lipstick traces shows the everyday life of 13 graffiti writers. Consciously, and therefore in contrast with usual graffiti publications, it uses the peculiar medium of Polaroid.

The idea was to send a Polaroid camera and about one hundred Polaroid photos to graffiti writers of different nationalities, with the task to shoot their everyday life, and to give them complete freedom in the choice of the motifs. It is surely this kind of freedom which makes this book so special, but also the fact that all these unpublished photos were taken especially for the book.

In the beginning of the 21st century, graffiti seems to be taking a line that is totally against its original motivation. On the one hand, this might be caused by more severe penalties, on the other it is due to the increasing incorporation of the media and big business. Thus, we decided to present such artists who devote themselves to this art in a committed way. They do not succumb to commercial pressure and bring new life into this movement.

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Bande À Part. - New York Underground 60’s, 70's, 80’s

Comprehensive expose of the New York Underground in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Bande a parte is a collection of photographs taken by those who were the eyes in the darkness, the insiders among the outsiders of art. What distinguishes this group is that they are not professionals in the sense that taking pictures wasn't really a job, it was a compulsion, something they had to do. Billy Name was a major domo at the silver Warhol Factory, Gerard Malanga was a poet and Warhol's painting assistant, Danny Fields was a mover and shaker in the record business, responsible for the management of such talents as Iggy and The Stooges, The Doors and The Ramones. Even those who were photographers by trade were not the kind who waited for assignments, they were self-taught anthropologists who wanted to document their time, their place. And clearly, these pictures tell their stories better than words ever could. Features photographs by Lee Childers, Billy Name, Anton Perich, Maripol, Roberta Bayley, Godlis,Bobby Grossman, Danny Fields, Stephanie Chernikowski, Marcia Resnick, and Gerard Malanga.

Out via Ginko Press

ISBN: 1-58423-272-2

Taro Hirano - Foreclosure

New title from Nieves
Foreclosure
Taro Hirano (Tokyo, Japan)

Taro Hirano (1973) is a photographer and skater living in Tokyo. Foreclosure is a continuation of his work first published in his photo book Pool from 2005 (Little More), a collection of landscape-style photos of pools in America. Taro always thought pool skating was just one of the old ways of skating, but after encountering a pool skater it changed his perspective.

Taro and Hina Hirano are the founders of No.12 Gallery in Shibuyaku, Tokyo. With contacts made in private life and at work, both in Japan and abroad, they provides an exhibitional space for his friends from various fields of artistic practice.



16 Pages, 19.5 x 25.5 cm, Color Offset, Edition of 200, 2008

No12 Gallery

Nieves