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  • AURI SACRA FAMES No.1

    The year 2012: Streetfiles.org is the No.1 source for checking out graffiti. Print as a medium for publishing photos of graffiti is dead, at least that’s what you did hear from everybody back then, even in the alleged world’s capital of graffiti Berlin. And it was true: what Berlin graffiti is all about was not to be found in magazines.…

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  • What Do One Million Ja Tags Signify? – Dumar Novy

    What do one million JA tags signify? What does it mean, when a writer is present through his tags and pieces since 1985 in a city like New York? On 100 pages Dr. Dumar Novy describes and analyzes not so much the work itself, but what JA’s stuff means to him, without having ever met him in real life.

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  • Guide 06 – FREIGHTS PT. 1

    In this years Guide 06 zine, we are invited to get to know the Czech freight writer scene. Browsing through the 104 paged publication a nostalgic feeling arises: unique styled pieces, that are the only thing added to the trains surfaces. No tags from other writers, in most cases no painted background to the pieces, only clean trains: it is…

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  • Kul Att Det Körs – Per Englund

    Per Englund is a Swedish writer and photographer who started doing graffiti in 1994. As he states in the introduction, he kind of regrets the lack of documented tags from his early writing days, due to analog cameras, expensive films and the lower value within the hierarchy of graffiti. It seems as if in today’s times of digital photography for…

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  • MOBY – Expect Anything

    The practice of leaving individual traces on freight trains is a respected North American cultural tradition. For more then a century hobos, tramps and railworkers, later also writers and adventurers made up nicknames to mark freights. Mostly they are executed with oil chalk markers in an elaborate handstyle, combined with a figurative logo and left on the flat metal surfaces…

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  • CPH_17_19

    In CPH_17_19 the activities of TOMCAT and KEGR in the street and on the train lines of Copenhagen are spotlighted. Although the city has a legendary history of graffiti since the 80s, the two writers managed to stand out today by constantly putting their personal stamp on the city’s walls for years. Tags, throw-ups, roll-ups, rooftops, bombings, etc. – you…

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  • MARK ALL.

    “Since the 1920s, railworkers and hobos in America have begun to mark freight trains with their very own symbols and signatures using chalk or oil paint sticks. They used the same so called monikers over decades. Some of them became legends over time, with thousands of monikers running all across North America. Nowadays, all kinds of people of every age…

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  • Boulevard – On Trespassing and Culture No.2 – INSTITUTION

    Just like the art world’s interest in graffiti, street art and urban is growing throughout the last years, so is the scientific research in these fields. While you can find standard reference works in libraries, there is a lack of in-depth texts and primary sources like exhibition catalogues, magazines from the scene or titles of Grey Literature which are often…

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  • Nuart Journal – #5 LOCKDOWN

    As the title of LOCKDOWN indicates the fifth issue of Nuart Journal, which was published in May 2021, was created during the Covid-19 pandemic. As in all other aspect of life the virus had also influence on the art which is produced in the streets and as a result it is a topic in Nuart Journal. But as always the…

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