Photography documentation captures street art, graffiti, and urban art imagery, showcasing diverse styles, techniques, locations, and the raw creative energy of contemporary urban expressions.
Photography serves as the essential medium for documenting and preserving the ephemeral nature of street art, graffiti, and urban art across global cities. Beyond mere documentation, urban art photography has developed into its own artistic discipline, exploring creative angles, lighting techniques, and framing choices that enhance the impact of the original artworks.
Through exhibitions, publications, and digital platforms, photographers play a vital role in bringing street art to audiences who cannot experience these works firsthand, democratizing access to urban creativity while honoring the artists’ original intentions and contexts.
Eye Candy #2: L’Atlas in Berlin, Israel Graffiti & Pothole Gardening
Yeah, it’s time again for some urban art eye candy from the Urbanartcore Flickr-group and some very interesting stories, which are too small for an own article:
L’Atlas in Berlin - French urban artist L’Atlas is in Berlin! Berlin-based street art photographer Just was on the streets with him and took some great shots…
Pothole Gardening - Pete Dungey and Steve Wheen created a new way of green street art! They planted flowers in potholes…
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Urban Art Eye Candy #1
Today I waked up and the first I thought was: “Urban Art Eye Candy”! The reason for that flash of inspiration was that I thought long and hard for a new striking title for the “Urban Top Shots” category.
For those of you who are new to Urban Artcore, in “Urban Top Shots” I present some of the best photographies of street art, graffiti, architecture and other urban impressions. The groundwork for my decisions is the Urbanartcore Flickr-group with its 440 members and about 6,100 photos from all over the world (Effective April 14th).
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Street Photography: L’Atlas in Moscow
After that beautiful photos of his crisscross paintings and tape artworks in India, French street artist L’Atlas hit Moscow and repeated the very interesting street photography of his art.
L’Atlas was born in Toulouse in 1978 and lives and works in Paris for years. This Moscow visit is his next step of the world tour he started years ago.
The geometrically form of his artworks and the huge count of different sizes in which he creates them, is really special. I love his doings and hope he will visit Berlin once again…
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Traceless Graffiti: TOFA’s Light-Writing
Often, light-writing or light-graffiti is also described as traceless graffiti. There are several articles about that relative new art form, which combines the style and motion sequences from the traditional graffiti with the technical knowledge of photography, in my archives…
One of the protagonists of light-writing in Berlin is Chris Noelle aka TOFA, who is visual jockey (VJ) in real life, initiator of the “Light-Write Festival”, which took place in Berlin in 2009, and responsible for the creative design at the well-known Tresor club in Berlin.
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New York City Polaroid Project
Seven years ago, Andrew Faris took a lot of brilliant and unique Polaroid photos of New York City. Recently he revisited his stacks of Polaroids and started to share them as the “New York City Polaroid Project”.
“This project began Spring 2003. At the time, I had just graduated from Kent State University and was ready for a new adventure. So I moved to NYC with my new acquired diploma and my parent’s Polaroid camera.” (Andrew Faris)
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Graffiti Documentary: Focusing Martha Cooper
The legendary “Subway Art” book by US-American graffiti photographer Martha Cooper, which was published in 1984, is a milestone in the medial writing documentation.
“I’ve seen it grown from a specific, localized New York City phenomenon to what it is now a worldwide overground predominant movement and that’s gonna been an pretty exciting thing to watch…” (Martha Cooper)
My friend RJ from the Vandalog blog met her last December and did that interesting interview with her.
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Calligraffiti: Graffiti meets Calligraphy!
A month ago, I told you about that very interesting art book by king calligrapher Niels “Shoe” Meulman. Now it’s, in addition to the Modart No. 01, in my possession and I’m very happy about that!
With prologues by John Langdon and Adam Eeuwens, who are internationally active graphic designers and typographers, the about 120 pages book impress with high-quality photographs of Shoe’s artworks as well as with some great digital vector artworks.
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Modart: The Best Art Book Ever?
When I arrived back in Berlin yesterday from my Scotland trip, my postbox was full of new mails and packages, including the new best of Modart book called “Modart No. 01 - Forget Art: In Order to Feel it”!
The 250 pages hard back book contains features about several urban artists, illustrators and photographers like JR, Os Gemeos, Adam Neate, Space Invader, Blu, Ruedi One and Mark Jenkins, organized by the categories Spy, Rider’s Ink, Illustrated Works, Inside, Show & Tell, Photo and Random.
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Urban Photobook: Pieces of Berlin
“Pieces of Berlin” is the name of a nice photobook about Berlin. On 90 pages, the book shows with 30 color photos some unconventional views of Berlin, the city of abandoned houses and street art, and therefore the real beauty and variety.
The book is composed of analog street photographs by Florian Reischauer and texts by Isobel Coquille and - because of the great success - actually available in its second edition.
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New York Typography
“New Type York” is a photoblog curated by New York based graphic designer James Patrick Gibson, who will periodically post shots of typographic details from the street s of New York City:
The premise is simple: A daily archive of images of typographic artifacts all around New York City. Signs, directions and building inscriptions are all fair game. The goal: Amass a typographic personality of New York, by cataloging all of its memorable and beautiful pieces of typography. (About New Type York)
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