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Pre-Order: Gordon Matta-Clark – Passing through moving in and getting away with it

Name: Pre-Order: Gordon Matta-Clark – Passing through moving in and getting away with it
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Gordon Matta-Clark’s New York City Graffiti Photographs, 1972-73

From 1972 to 1973, Gordon Matta-Clark took over fifteen hundred photographs of graffiti in New York City. These pictures are some of the earliest documentation of an emerging art form, and are an under-recognized body of work from Matta-Clark – an artist who used the city’s crumbling infrastructure to reveal the social and political implications of architecture and urban design.

Passing through moving in and getting away with it is a massive book with over 1000 pages that features every frame from every roll of film Matta-Clark shot, organized according to the sequence of contact sheets in the artist’s archive. Taken together, these pictures demonstrate Matta-Clark’s obsession with the graffiti that had exploded across the city’s walls, subways, and buses, and show him growing bolder as he moved from photographing on the streets and subway platforms, to trespassing in outer borough train yards. An essay by Antonio Sergio Bessa and a text by Jonathan Lethem accompany the photographs.

This deep insight into such an incredible archive is an absolute gem. The chronological and comprehensive arrangement not only allows completely new insights to be gained, but also reveals a large number of previously unknown photographs.

Featuring: JEE126, STITCH1, SNAKE131, FUTURA2000, STAYHIGH149, STAFF161, SNAKE1, PHASE2, PYTHON120, COOL CLIFF120, BABY FACE86, CAY161, JUNIOR161, PIPER1, SUPER KOOL223, CHARMIN65, SUPERFLY, BEAR163, PISTOL, CLUTCH2, SJK171, CRACHEE, VAMM, FLINT707, EL MARKO171, TRACY168, CLIFF159, BUTCH167, ALL JIVE161, MOSES147, and many others.

Note: We just had a very small number of the first edition, which is sold out now. BUT a second printing is already in the planing and will be available in January 2026! We recommend that anyone who would like a copy of the book take advantage of this pre-order option.
Orders with other publications will be shipped in one parcel by then.

1008 pages, 18 x 23,3 x 8,2cm, hardcover, second edition
Authors: Antonio Sergio Bessa, Jonathan Lethem
Editor: Gary Fogelson
ISBN 9798988796039
Publisher: Other Means

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