The Birth of Graffiti by Jon Naar

Dirty Graffiti A promotional video for The Birth of Graffiti by Jon Naar, published by Prestel, 2007. These photographs, all taken in New York City in the winter of 1973, evoke a vanished world and the origins of a major art movement. Jon Naar published several of these photographs in 1974 in the book The Faith of Graffiti with a text by Norman Mailer, but this volume contained over 100 previously unpublished photographs from that two week period in the mid-70s when J