Just been dropped a mail about a new book due for release this summer, here are a few screen shots
and some blurb! Looks dope, if the preview photos are anything to go by, even tho the photos are sideways..
Our
Side Of The Tracks
From
Alias Press, the publishers of Ultimate Graffsportz 2, we present
‘Our Side Of The Tracks’. Photographers Oahu and Phil America
present a book like no other and a journey into places where no one
else dares to take you. This book is a must-have for anyone
interested in the phenomenon of graffiti on trains and the
adventerous and secretive individuals behind it. It focuses on the
artists behind the names bringing you photos of some of the most
infamous and well-known artists on the scene, all photos which have
never been seen before.
Our
Side Of The Tracks contains 10 years of images showing the faces,
places and spaces the photographers have visited throughout both
Europe and North America. The collection of over 70 photos is curated
with care and insight, and will open the eyes of even the most
involved individuals to a new side of the genre, while capturing a
part of a ever-evolving art form many do not even know exists.
Tripods, chases, police reports, and action, action, action.
The
book includes portraits of many of the world’s most famous artists
involved in the graffiti scene as well as many of the most visited
and the most obscure places, out of reach from the general public,
where graffiti writers go to paint on trains. It will not only be the
bible in ones library but it will stand as a timeless piece of work
in the scene now seemingly over-saturated in books about the subject.
A subculture on the rise and the first-hand, behind-the-scenes look
at the people, considered criminals, who practice the art known as
train painting, the last antidote to blatant advertising.
The
photos include everywhere from New York’s grimy subway tunnels,
Copenhagen’s ever-clean Metro layups, Milano’s gypsy-controlled
train yards, Washington DC’s high-security spots, Paris’
legendary underground, to even Switzerland’s perfect trains.
Catania’s subway before it was a tourist attraction in the graffiti
scene, looking cleaner than ever. Bucharest wholecars covering the
windows in 2006. Switzerland’s capital of Bern in the buff. Action
in Toronto, Canada. Climbing through windows in Milan. Between the
lines in Miami. Belgium, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Germany, England,
Spain, France and Austria. Over 35 cities with places and times of
the photos.
Out
summer 2012!
