
Subway World
Graffiti on Trains
Torkel Sjostrand(Author)
Dokument Press
Published on 15. October 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-91-85639-19-9 (ISBN)
Description
Subway World is a book about graffiti on subway trains all over the world. What started in New York in the seventies has become an worldwide artform with thousands of artists. The tradition of using subway cars as canvases has been preserved and has become an integrated part of the graffiti movement. Subway World takes you through more than 50 cities and four different continents. Everywhere where there are subway trains there is graffiti. From, Moscow in Russia and Tbilsi in Georgia through Hiroshima in Japan, Los Angeles in the USA, Toronto in Canada and Buenos Aires in Argentina to London, Berlin, Milan and Paris in Europe. Subway World gives you hard facts on all the subway systems aswell as short stories and trivia. From America: New York, New Jersey, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Baltimore, Washington DC, Atlanta. Toronto, MontrAƒÆ'A'Æ'Aƒe sA'Â(c)al, Vancouver, Cleveland and Mexico City.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Arsta
Sweden
Publishing group
Dokument Forlag
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Illustrations
80 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 173 mm
Width: 237 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
582 gr
ISBN-13
978-91-85639-19-9 (9789185639199)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Torkel Sjostrand is a photographer and editor for Underground Productions magazine. His earlier books include 1207, Gates of Graffiti and Overground.