![]() You also may want to check out the Graffiti 2009 Wall Calendar by Roger GastmanĬalendar: 28 pages Dimensions: 14 x 11.9 x 0.2 inches Publisher: Abrams Calendars Wall edition They curate - but they'll also create graffiti for you! their spectacular film site, and the equally exciting gallery. ![]() See this interview with Steve Rotman with SFGRAF.COMĪlso check out the "known gallery" a multi platform creative firm staffed with overachievers from around the world. User Group News Network, and Photoshop Tips & Tricks Other Graffiti stuff you might like You'll love it!Ģ08 pages, 11.5 x 9.5 inches, Color throughout, Casebound San Fran started it in the Haight-Ashbury days, now they are leading the parade of spray cans and dirty brushes. This is really a lot more than just a color-crowded coffee table book - it's a visual education in the obscure, the obscene and the compelling results of the true meaning of self expression. "We share a passion for graffiti, an appreciation for the many styles that represent us, and a recognition that being different is being normal here." In the book's introduction, graffiti artist JENKS describes San Francisco as a city that attracts people who have a special need to express themselves and explore a wide variety of ideas and lifestyles. Rotman sought out an incredible array of locations for the book, including "dingy tunnels, abandoned factories and warehouses, grimy back alleys and off-limits industrial wastelands." "It is very gratifying to preserve the art and perspectives of these extraordinary graffiti writers." I wanted the book to convey and celebrate the considerable dedication and creativity within the Bay Area graffiti culture," Rotman explains. "I love color, and graffiti is full of great, brilliant combinations of color, as well as fascinating shapes and an undeniable vibrancy. ![]() The city's energetic and continually shifting cultural revolutions. While there, became fascinated with the graffiti scene, which to him seemed to match The result is "Bay Area Graffiti."īorn and raised in Minneapolis, Rotman moved to San Francisco to work in radio and, Permanent record of his work was met with similar requests from many of his onlineįollowers. Rotman, better known in the cyber world as Funkandjazz-he was a jazz disc jockeyĪnd public radio announcer for many years-has been photographing Bay Area graffitiįor more than a decade, posting much of it online. The graffiti culture that evolved between 20 in the region, and how itīlended into the urban and natural landscapes. Of the featured artists, "Bay Area Graffiti" is an unrelenting documentation of With more than 700 photographs and personal descriptive commentary from over 50 San Francisco photographer Steve Rotman brings us the first book to focus on how this explosive cultural phenomenon runs rampant throughout the region. "Bay Area Graffiti", is the topic of this absorbing new book that focuses on the graffiti scene in a region often regarded as being just as colorful: the San Francisco Bay Area. But rest assured this is a visual feast of rare delight that will add a few thousand brain cells, but won't leave a single calorie behind! (By the way, you'll want to click on any of these images for enlargements!)Īnyway, this is a stunning, eye-opening book that is so saturated with color, you'll think you're gaining weight just thumbing through it. Somehow these folks find a way to do it! Yet more amazing is finding styles that begin to denote locations, and areas - then from time to time you recognize a style that doesn't belong! Visiting graffitist, I guess. I've seen it painted along narrow ledges over train tracks, on the faces of bulkheads totally over water, and on towers you would think would be impossible to scale. The amazing thing about these artists is that they are for the most part is not only are they anonymous, but they go to great lengths to find just one more surface area not yet touched by graffiti. San Francisco, once known for another art movement has gained the reputation of the graffiti capital of the world. In my many, many trips to the Bay area - particularly the East Bay, I have always been fascinated by the array of graffiti - and the dexterity with which some of it is created. I was wondering when someone would produce a book on this topic, and I'm delighted someone finally has. Give me a white sport coat and a can of pink spray paint. San Fran's Haight-Ashbury glory returns in the form of graffiti
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