Art Books: Explore the World of Graffiti & Street Art

Do you know “The Urban Cookbook” by writer, author and filmmaker King Adz? It brings together what not fits together at the first glance - street food, street art and street style! Creative recipes for the graffiti generation! In addition to 50 urban cookery recipes, the book also contains interviews with 25 street artists like Wooster Collective from New York, E-Boy from Berlin, JR and Invader from Paris, Helmut Smits from Amsterdam and D*Face from London. ...

Ruedione from Heidelberg, Germany, is one of the best known graffiti photographers worldwide. For years he was an active graffiti writer himself, what makes it possible for him to have a close contact to the writers scene and thus access to illegal live graffiti action. His photos - mostly in black/white - visually describe the emotions during writing. It’s his lifework to document and preserve the moments that kept him writing his name on a lot of surfaces for years. ...