By Juliette Tang
There is some seriously beautiful graffiti in the Bay Area, along with some unbelievably atrocious scribbling as well.
Photographers Steve Rotman and Chris Brennan want you to focus on the beautiful. Their photo book of local street art, Bay Area Graffiti, drops this Friday with a launch party at 111 Minna. The bomb tome offers 208 pages of stunning landscape photos, as well as in-depth artist interviews with major players like JENKS, ABNO, CHUBS, HARSH, NESTA, REYES, CYMES, APEX and more – which “reveal personal stories, insights into inspiration, and harrowing tales of agility, all in the name of getting up.”
From Bay Area Graffiti
(The Online Graffiti Glossary, explains “getting up”: “Originally, “getting up” meant to sucessfully hit a train. Now it means to hit up anything, anywhere, with any form of graffiti, from a tag all the way up to a wildstyle burner — although the term implies the process of tagging repeatedly to spread your name. Tagging something once would be getting up, but would not make you an ‘up’ writer.” Etymology!)
Many of the up graffiti writers featured in the book will be making appearances at the launch bash.
