SEATTLE
STREET ART BOOK A Visual Time Capsule Beyond Graffiti (Volume 1) By A. Tarantino
Publisher: Createspace
Pages: 104 Full Color Photos
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0615451909 (paperback)
ISBN-10: 061545190X (paperback)
Product Dimensions: 8.25 x 6 x 1 inches
BISAC: Category: Art / Popular
Culture
A portion of the
proceeds from this book will benefit SOS Outreach, an international nonprofit building
character in youth through outdoor adventure. http://www.SOSOutreach.org/
Book Introduction: Aside from its rain and coffee, Seattle,
Washington is known for many things subversive, from Grunge music to the
activist driven WTO riots. This region of America raised the likes of Jimi
Hendrix and Bruce Lee. Today, there is a culture here that is only
represented anonymously in the reclaimed public spaces of the city. Images
dot the urban landscape in the typical street mediums that are used across
the globe; spray paint, stickers, paste-ups, stencils, wheatpasting,
posters, video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art, flash mobbing,
installations, post-graffiti, mosaic tiling, murals, wood-blocking, LED
art, reverse-graffiti and yarn bombing.
You will see that these
are not commercial enterprises or vandalism graffiti, but individual
creative statements... something we can all relate to. Street art as a
medium has been popularized internationally by the likes of Shepard Fairey,
Banksy, D*Face, Paul Insect, Swoon, Twist, Neck face, Faile, Space Invader
and WK Interact. It can take on many purposes and sometimes involves
activism, phenomenology, repetition, attention capture, culture jamming,
direct action, guerrilla messaging, propaganda, subvertising, decoration
and territory claiming.
The following is a small window into this
temporary world that's constantly being revised in a flux of new symbols.
It's a snapshot of work on the Seattle streets over about a 3 year period,
a visual capsule in time, not a comprehensive representation of Seattle
street art and the people involved over the years. Some of the work only
existed for a day before it was written over by other artists or removed by
the city... a reminder that nothing is permanent, and control is an
illusion in the chaos of a city. Enjoy.
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A special thanks for inspiration and guidance to A. Jackson of Outer Edge Studio,
A. Martinelli, A. Menconi of SOS Outreach, B. Appel, B. Hodgedon, B. Johnson, B. Phares, B. Phillips of EVO, B. Schikowitz, B. Swett,
B. Tarantino, C.
Robertson, D. Brown, D. Hayes of BLVD gallery, D. Nelson, D. Yacubian, E.
Thomas, E. Wilson, F. J. Tarantino, F. M. Tarantino, G. Wolfe, H. O'Neill,
I. Price, J.
Bagby, J. Burke, J. Gaume, J.
LaPatta, J. Manning, J. Martin, J. McCormack, J. Paul, J.
Stambaugh, K. Campbell, K. Chilelli, K. Fitzgerald, K. Goodell, K. Kerns,
K. Khawaja, K. Luberda, K. Macdougall, K. Nelson at Bluestocking Books, K. Taylor, L. Barclay, L. Nabinger,
L. Raes, L. Reaves, M. Brulotte, M. Buckley, M. Currier, M. Ehrhardt, M.
Foster, M. Hadder, M. McLaughlin, M. Richards, M. Tarantino, N. Waak, P. Freedman, P.
Kappus, P. Wang, R. DeMulder, R. Hollister, R. Nash, R. Radloff, R.
Whitney, S. A. King, S. Cheung, S. Hoffman of Spacecraft,
S. Laakso, S. Mammen, S. McClintock, S. Oberschall, S. Wolfe, T. Dauenhauer, T.
Dunn, T. Mcdowell
Copyright 2010-2011 by Seattle
Street Art, A. Tarantino All rights reserved. Licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. No part of
this work may be reproduced in any manner without expressed permission by
the author or publisher in writing as prohibited by copyright law. This
book is an original photographic document to preserve the aesthetics of
street art, it is not meant to represent the artists in any way or
encourage illegal activity.
