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The Faith of Graffiti is the classic, definitive look at the birth of graffiti as an art form, pairing the fascinating 1974 essay by Norman Mailer—National Book Award and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Naked and the Dead and The Executioner’s Song—with the stunning, iconic photography of internationally acclaimed…
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Norman Mailer is a legend of American literature and, without a doubt, the most famous writer to have ever written seriously about graffiti. Alongside the equally legendary British photographer Jon Naar, whose stunning images grace their joint work, this book is up there as one of the most influential books on graffiti ever written.
Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its publishing in 2024, Mailer and Naar’s book was the first to take graffiti seriously as both a public act and public art alike. Whilst much of Mailer’s essay is colored by his own personal tribulations and enmities, and whilst Naar’s…
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