Autograf: New York City's Graffiti Writers

by 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 New York City’s Graffiti Writers , Sutherland presents a never-before-seen chronicle of the people and places that populate New York’s famed graf scene. Featuring old-school legends FUTURA, STAY HIGH 149, LADY PINK and DOZE, as well as new-school writers COPE 2, CLAW, KR, CYCLE, KAWS, SACER, EARSNOT, SERF, RATE, CINIK, UFO, and DSENSE, among many others, each one of the fifty-three portraits is authentically tagged by the individual writers using the same paint markers that brought them fame. Complemented by one hundred sixty 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.

Genres: Graffiti

112 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2004

Reviews

[Lacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Neat read. Loved being able to pair a tag with a face (or a mask, in some cases).

[Suridh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great graf book. Great title. Love the pictures, love the tags. Captures NYC perfectly — and at the time, it was a pretty seminal piece. From a publishing point of view, it was brave. A real step up for graffiti art books back in 2004.