Getting Up

If Subway Art is graffiti painter's bible, Getting up is the Ten Commandments. Stan 153, Bama, Lee, Caz and many other New York writers tells us about how it all began and how it went down.áThe book is a brilliant chronicle. Read the story about the Ex-Vandals and how they met all the fighting gangs of Coney Island. Learn how Stan took hes first faltering steps on the Writers Corner on 188 street, or Lee's story of The Fabulous Fives Christmas Whole Train 1977th. Getting Up also contains interesting interviews with graffiti cops Hickey and Ski, and the story of Patrolman Schwartz, of the Bama-called Marquis de Schwartz ... Fab Five Freddy has not only been the host of MTV!

A5 Portrait, 190 pages, English edition.