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powerHouse Books is thrilled to announce the release of
Autograf
New York City’s Graffiti Writers
Photographs by Peter Sutherland
Text by REVS
A controversial art form and provocative cultural phenomenon, graffiti has
inestimably influenced our entire environment—from music and fashion to
advertising, architecture, and graphic arts. Yet it is an illegal activity, which
makes its practitioners wanted criminals. Motivated by a desire for
self-expression and recognition, the act of marking one’s territory is done at the risk of
severe consequences including fines and jail time. Graffiti writers are
outlaws, unknown artists whose faces are known only to their peers. Treated as
criminals by the law and dismissed as artists by the establishment, writers are
perceived as either alluring anti-heroes or loathsome vandals, and usually remain
anonymous to their audience. But not to photographer Peter Sutherland.
With an eye for style, Sutherland captures all of the gritty glory and
glamour of the graffiti world and its warriors. Collected for the first time in
Autograf: New York City’s Graffiti Writers, Sutherland presents a
never-before-seen chronicle of the people and places that populate New York’s famed graff
scene. Featuring old-school legends FUTURA, STAY HIGH 149, LADY PINK and DOZE—as
well as REVS, COPE 2, KAWS, CYCLE, CLAW, VFRESH, KR, EARSNOT, SERF, MINT, RATE,
SACER, UFO, MERZ, NATO, DSENSE, 323, KORN, EWOK, JEST, OZE 108, DONA, MYNOCK
21, SEMZ, KSER, SEMEN, DIVA, PEEK, GLACER, NYMZ, JAKEE, ARTZ, MUK, LASE,
MOSCO, GEN 2, PEZ, SARE, CINIK, SINCE, ZER, NET, MADE, SAME, REHAB, GOAL, YEAR,
FANTA, KECH, AREA, and DECK—each one of the portraits is authentically tagged by
the individual  writers using the same paint markers that brought them fame.
Complemented by over fifty landscape photographs and featuring handwritten text
by legendary recluse REVS, Autograf  is the only book to showcase New York
City’s graffiti scene as it was created and defined by some of the most prolific
artists of our time.
~EXHIBITION~
June 17- August 3, 2004
Cc:room
(Circleculture Cc
Gipsstrasse 11, Berlin
Peter Sutherland is a filmmaker and photographer who was born in Ann Arbor,
Michigan in 1976 and raised in Colorado. A move to NYC in 1998 prompted his
first feature documentary, Pedal, a film about NYC bike messengers that is
currently airing on the Sundance Channel. Sutherland also worked as director of
photography on Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator, a documentary about Gator, a
famous skateboarder who was convicted of murder in 1991. Directed by Helen
Stickler, Stoked premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, and was released
theatrically by Palm Pictures in August 2003. Sutherland is a contributing
photographer to magazines including Vice, Tokion, Nylon, Paper, and XLR8R, and has
done commercial photographic work for Nike and Vice Records. He has shown his
work at the Rivington Arms gallery and at 255 Elizabeth Space, both in New
York. Sutherland lives and works in New York City.
PHOTOGRAPHY/ANTISOCIAL EXPRESSIONISM
Hardcover 7.75 x 10.25 inches, 120 pages
23 black-and-white and 88 four-color photographs
ISBN 1-57687-203-3 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â $29.95
New book "Autograf, New York City's Graffiti Writers" -
05-20-2004, 09:57 PM
