This book is being offered at a discounted rate due to a small defect. We are unable to share images of defects or offer refunds on books purchased from the 'Sample Sale' section marked as 'Seconds’. 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-recognised 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…
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This book is being offered at a discounted rate due to a small defect. We are unable to share images of defects or offer refunds on books purchased from the 'Sample Sale' section marked as 'Seconds’.
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-recognised 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, organised 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.
Design: Other Means
Size: 180x233mm
Pages: 1008
Publication: 2025
Binding: Casebound
