HamburgCity Graffiti

Since the early eighties Hamburg has experienced everything graffiti has to offer. The good as well as the bad it doesn’t matter from what side you look at it

There is hardly a city better suited to analyze the graffiti phenomenom. The book transports exactly the conflicts and tensions that have accompanied and fueled graffiti art for nearly twenty years. The readers will find their own position it doesn’t matter if they are sprayers themselves, if they have kids who spray too or ever boarded a painted train in the morning. Now this is art? Are sprayers criminals? Why are they doing it? The book has many answers, but they all agree on one point : Graffiti is one of the most exciting things that youth culture had to offer in the last years.