"While the adults on the Riverdale Express read their morning papers, I read the city walls..."

The author of Graffiti 365, J.SON, has been an artist and historian of the graffiti movement for decades—he started writing graffiti in 1973 and retired in 1984. Unparalleled in its breadth and depth of coverage, Graffiti 365 is a wide-angle snapshot of an entire movement.

The Battle Hardened Writer

Zephyr writes the opening blurb and reports that the book’s author J.Son has experienced a lobotomy-like conversion in the process, he now sees some point in some street art. And that to a large extent captures why this book is worth reinforcing your shelves for. A battle hardened writer, a there-at-the-genesis graff head steeped in tunnel mystique and whole car yard missions has filtered the graff he loves and the street art he respects. He draws the genetic link between the two and if it qualifies to be in this book then it has been passed fit for consumption by a real graff head.

Tour of J.SON’s Secret Graffiti Lab

“Just found some lost footage from MSG network segment filmed live in the Bronx, 2007. It’s from a studio project for a European Collection…  Some familiar faces from a NY who’s who cast of graff heavyweights in addition to yours truly: T.KID , CES, SERVE, Kaves, Chain 3 etc. etc…… Piece!” -J.SON

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Over 600 Rare, High Quality Images

Graffiti 365 delivers the first real insider’s view into the contemporary graffiti and street-art scenes, as well as their antecedents. A fun, wide-ranging survey of the international graffiti movement, this book uses more than 600 rare, previously unpublished, or legendary images to introduce and describe important artists—from Blade to Banksy—and styles—from bubble to wild. Along the way, Graffiti 365 covers different eras, cities, legendary walls and crews, police and public responses to graffiti, and more.

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