Brassaï: Graffiti

Master photographer Brassaï’s seminal volume dedicated to street graffiti is back in print.

Brassaï celebrated the primal forces at play in the act of defacing a wall and the “magical” power of the symbols inscribed. A fundamentally human gesture, graffiti is a distillation of all aspects of life—from birth through love to death. This beautifully curated reissue includes a comprehensive selection of Brassaï’s photographs of graffiti, facsimile pages from his sketchbooks, extracts from his co...