the revenge of the book To be a print publisher in this day and age is to be a romantic. We are romantics. Carpet Bombing Culture is your counter-cultural publisher par excellence. Our aim is to provide you, dear reader, with premium quality art and photography books littered with vitriolic and highly subjective commentary to aid you in pursuing the guerrilla warfare that is 21st century everyday life.* Lush large format photography, provocative and entertaining writing, cutting edge graphic design, infographics, maps, interactivity, personalisation, risk, edge, passion. All these things that routinely go into Carpet Bombing Culture books reflect this romantic vision, that here in the epilogue of the story of the book we are free to go out with both guns blazing every time. Our books are beautiful tactile objects that beg to be picked up and talked about. They are social objects, they say to the world what kind of person their owner is and invite people to discover something new. CBC books are designed to enrich the conversation around their subject with powerful images and provocative but conversational text. In this way you read the books as a way into a culture, an access code to a social network. When you see a beautiful book - you want to touch it. Nobody wants to touch your eReader.
The Dark Carnival Portraits from the Endless Night NEW TITLE
Derek Ridgers
A darkly fascinating celebration of 5 decades of nightlife
ÂŁ29.95 Derek Ridgers has been stalking the clubs and streets of the dark carnival for many years - indulging in his obsession for collecting the images, the fleeting impressions of people dressed up for the glorious night. At last he serves up for you a delicious cornucopia of the finest of these images, carefully selected and curated by the man himself. Anyone who loves street style, youth subcultures, portrait photography and the curious human penchant for playing dressing up, will find this collection a darkly fascinating celebration of night life to pore over again and again. www.thedarkcarnival.co.uk
ISBN 978-1-908211-38-5 Dimensions 285x235mm Pagination 216pp Format Hardback
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NEW FOR 2016
Ron English’s Fauxlosophy NEW TITLE
Ron English
Indelible images bring to life
his wit and wisdom to live by,
delivered through art, humor
and ironic inspiration
ÂŁ5.95 ISBN 978-1908211-45-3
A compelling collection of the artist's sayings accompanied by his own iconic images.
Dimensions 140x140mm
Ron English is one of the most prolific and recognisable American artists alive today. Considered the Godfather of Street Art, he has appeared in movies such as Exit through the Gift Shop and Supersize Me and as a character of himself on the Simpsons.
Pagination 100pp
New York-based, his work is shown in galleries and museums worldwide. www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
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Founder of ‘The Street Spot’ blog 10 years of NYC creativity and context Over 250 street art and graffiti photographs
NEW FOR 2016
(Un)Sanctioned The Art on New York Streets NEW TITLE
Katherine ‘Luna Park’ Lorimer
NYC has been, and continues to
be, a beacon for artists who
£19.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-33-0 Dimensions 240x196mm Pagination 192pp Format Hardback
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both feed off and contribute to
the City's energy
Luna Park has spent the last ten years cataloging the art she found on NYC streets. She quickly learned that for those that pay attention, the street can provide as much of an arts education as a museum. Ever since the City banished graffiti from the subway trains, it’s streets have developed into a vast playground for a complex culture, made up of distinct communities, each with their own hierarchies, values and sets of rules. This is Luna Park’s love letter to the City and the artists who continue to aspire and inspire. www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
NEW FOR 2016
Ask the Dust Romain Veillon
NEW TITLE
Veillon serves up a feast of
decay for your contemplation,
beautifully shot and artfully composed
ÂŁ24.95 ISBN 978-1908211-36-1
Ask the Dust is a feast of urban ruin photography, executed in gorgeous full colour, full page spreads framed by the considerations of the young French adventurer behind the camera. Featuring a potent blend of haunting images of never before seen locations and new angles on classic subjects - Ask the Dust is a visual treat for anyone who cannot keep their eyes away from the elegant corruption of decomposing buildings. Epecuen: The town that drowned. Ghostly images from the real life Atlantis www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
Dimensions 251x251mm Pagination 216pp Format Hardback
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The Death of Photography The Shooting Gallery Peter Gravelle
NEW NEW TITLE
FOR 2016
Gravelle burns the myths, tells
the stories and reveals a
textured and intelligent picture of a truly maverick life
From the filth and the fury to the elegant extravaganza, ‘Peter Gravelle’, the many named photographer, has remained in the shadows of punk rock, low culture and high fashion, deflecting attention while steadily producing an epic body of iconic work. ‘The Death of Photography’ is a tour de force, a high end art book showcasing forty years of the best punk, fashion and portraiture of Gravelle’s career. Heavily stylised images are woven together with Gravelle’s own fascinating recollections from a live lived in technicolour. www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
£24.95 ISBN 978-1908211-41-5 Dimensions 285x220mm Pagination 216pp Format Hardback
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NEW FOR 2016
Hunting the Killer Idea Capturing the creative process Nick McFarlane NEW TITLE
Captures the creative
process in a fresh and
£16.95 ISBN 978-1908211-34-7 Dimensions 250x185mm Pagination 196pp Format Softback
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compelling way
Killer Ideas. They’re out there. Wild, unpredictable and dangerous. So powerful they can stop a person in their tracks, turn a life around, start a revolution, or even change the world. Hunting the Killer Idea takes the intrepid reader through the jungle of the mind as the creative process is brought to life in vivid detail. Examining what it is that makes great ideas stand the test of time as we attempt to capture the essence of creativity. Whether you’re the creative type or not, starting a business, studying, making art or just mucking around. This book is essential reading for anyone who knows they’ve got a Killer Idea hiding somewhere deep inside – and the time to hunt it down has come. www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
NEW FOR 2016
Punk London 1977 Derek Ridgers
NEW TITLE
Coincides with the 40th
anniversary of punk rock 1977. Most people blinked and missed it. Many spent a decade trying to catch up. Derek Ridgers stumbled across it by accident, where it was, in the beating filthy heart of the Roxy in middle of a derelict slum called Covent Garden. Stumbling through the moshpits trying to keep hold of a borrowed camera. Ridgers captured the first wave. Kids in the crowd, never before seen. The punks who made their own clothes because you couldn’t buy punk clothes. The punks who got beaten up time and again for making themselves into targets. Rebellion before it got easy. You won’t see these kids anywhere in the magazines. They weren’t trying to get famous. 1977 will happen again. 1977 is happening somewhere, for someone, right now. More than this, they did it their way. www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
£14.95 ISBN 978-1908211-44-6 Dimensions 248x197mm Pagination 152pp Format Softback
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Over 50 artists Over 300 die-cut stickers Created by artists, illustrators and agent provocateurs
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RELEASE
Stick It Carpet Bomb Your Culture NEW TITLE
How you spin each sticker gives
it the magical personal touch.
£12.95 ISBN 978-1908211-28-6 Dimensions 185x185mm Format Softback
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Placement is your art
STICK IT Illustration is a beautiful colllection of over 300 stunning full colour stickers lovingly created by artists, illustrators and agent provocateurs - bringing you the perfect book to customise your life. Stick It will appeal to both artists and art lovers, designers and students - in fact its the must have publication for anyone with a passion for creativity. Commissioned cutting edge illustration rubs shoulders with stunning typographical messaging, hand lettering, photography and fresh design. Let us commodify your dissent for only £12.95 and we guarantee that your resistance will be spectacular. And if you don’t like it you know where you can... www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
Printed on 2 distinctive paper stocks Create your own city billboards Graffiti your own subway, passenger or freight trains
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RELEASE
GraffBook The Graffiti Sketchbook Everything for the armchair graffiti artist
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GRAFFBOOK
We just gave you the most fun
sketchbook ever. Now open that
book and get busy with the ink
Unleash your inner graffiti writer all over the walls, trains, subways and freighters in this beautiful black book. No CCTV. No cops. No rabid dogs. Just tonnes of inspirational illustration for you to deface, bomb over and throw up on at will. GraffBook is all about inspiring you to be the most creative you possibly can be with a nib and an imagination. • Printed on 2 distinctive paper stocks • 120 pages of uncoated art paper • 48 pages of matte coated art paper • Over 160 blank walls to demonstrate your creativity www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
£12.95 ISBN 978-1908211-25-5 Dimensions 297x210mm Pagination 168pp Format Hardback
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Best seller Pocket size Fun and informative
Banksy Myths & Legends Mark Leverton
Do you want to know the truth,
ÂŁ5.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-01-9 Dimensions 105x148mm Pagination 96pp Format Softback
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the whole truth and everything
but the truth?
No single living artist has created as many myths, rumours and legends as Banksy. Many of the tales in this book are from Bristol, some are from further afield. What they share is that they are all told with the wide eyed wonder which Banksy inspires. Collated between 2009 and 2011 some of these stories are quite old and have been told so many times they have become the stuff of legend, others are more questionable and best described as myths. Some are laugh out loud bollocks and others are simply gossip. You be the judge.
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Special Delivery Banksy rarely gives any personal details away, but might a string of pieces over 2012 and 2013 provide some insight into his personal life? The first in this 'trilogy' is 'Bird has got the horn', a bird sits perched on a badly sketched penis. There was no reply from Banksy sources when we enquired if this was drawn to scale.
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RELEASE
Banksy Mark Leverton
We collect the stories, the
reader can judge for
themselves
For many the smoke and mirrors which surround Banksy are as fascinating as the artwork of the 21st century’s most important living artist. The first edition contained 58 'Banksy stories’, many of which have been subsequently verified as being bona fide. Others have remained slightly more tenuous. The second edition takes the same approach. In 2011 Bristol based writer Marc Leverton teamed up with Carpet Bombing Culture to bring a collection of the best of these stories together. Since then the Banksy juggernaut has continued to roll on, spewing out sharp satire, unintentional furores, blatant profiteering, and many more myths and legends. Plus the odd bit of art. www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
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BANKSY MYTHS & LEGENDS VoLuMe 2
CoLlEcTeDÊBy mArCÊLeVeRtOn
NEW TITLE
Myths & Legends Volume 2
£5.95 ISBN 978-1908211-31-6 Dimensions 105x148mm Pagination 92pp Format Softback
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NEW Edition CBC Best Seller Updated to include Banksy’s “Better Out Than In” New York spectacular
NEW 2015 EDITION
Banksy You Are An Acceptable Level Of Threat Gary Shove & Patrick Potter
People either love this book,
£24.95
or they hate it, or they’ve never heard of it
ISBN 978-1-908211-30-9 Dimensions 259x221mm Pagination 240pp Format Hardback
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Now fully revised and updated, this new edition of Banksy You Are An Acceptable Level Of Threat includes his groundbreaking October 2013 residency in New York city. The new edition includes over 70 new photographs nearly all of which have never been published before. The single best collection of photography of Banksy’s street work that has ever been assembled for print. If that isn’t enough there are some words too.
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Burn After Reading RomanyWG
Compiled from the results of
5 years of exhaustive travel and documentation
£9.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-06-4
Legal or illegal graffiti. It’s sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly, but given time it can bee breathtaking in it's skill of execution. Mural graffiti, although it may be unfashionable to say so – is impressive at least in part because it's really bloody difficult to do it well.
Dimensions 200x140mm
Sadly these murals take too long to create for the illegal stuff to proliferate. So, until the revolution of consciousness when our leaders will simultaneously attain enlightenment and put up or shut up, budding muralists need to find legal walls.
Format Hardback
Collected here are 256 pages of the best. www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
Pagination 256pp
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Burn After Writing Welcome to the book of you NEW TITLE
Sharon Jones
The revenge of handwriting:
Who are you now?
£9.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-23-1
Where are you going?
Dimensions 127x198mm
Burn After Writing is a personal journal that invites you to face all of the big questions in life.
Pagination 144pp
It’s your own interactive confidante encompassing a collection of gently probing questions, mind games, thought experiments and homework assignments - all on your favourite subject: yourself. Have fun with it, or take it too seriously, or both. It’s up to you.
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How did you get here?
It’s an extended feature length interview with you, a radical thought experiment with you as the subject and you as the result. www.burnafterwriting.me
MY LIFE
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If I could direct the Hollywood movie of my life story, this would be the cast list
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me
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as as 6
Burn After Writing TEEN NEW TITLE
Rhiannon Shove
This book will be a unique
picture of you as you are right
now, as you will never be again
ÂŁ9.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-27-9
Burn After Writing asks the question - who are you really? And it keeps asking until you find yourself. This interactive book acts as the epic teenage journey of self-discovery. Hundreds of questions pry open the secrets of your psyche piece by piece.
Dimensions 127x198mm
Some questions are fun, some are deep and some are just plain random. You can take it deadly seriously, or just have fun with it, or both. Flick open the book at any page when you’re bored and answer the question. Let fate decide which one you need to ask yourself next.
Format Hardback
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Pagination 144pp
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Abandoned Planet
NEW TITLE
The definitive document of cinematic abandoned photography Andre Govia
ÂŁ24.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-26-2 Dimensions 256x256mm Pagination 264pp Format Hardback
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The first book by pioneering worldwide Urbex legend Andre Govia brings you the definitive document of cinematic abandoned photography. Having travelled to 22 countries Abandoned Planet is a unique document of exploring places caught in a time-warp, locations where history is frozen in time. Many of these images are downright spooky ranging from the elegant and hauntingly beautiful, to a scare factor that is the stuff of nightmares. www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
In depth accompanying essays throughout Includes Chernobyl
Soviet Ghosts The Soviet Union Abandoned: A Communist Empire in Decay Rebecca Litchfield
SOVIETGHOSTS REBECCALITCHFIELD
The iron curtain frozen in time:
A photographic odyssey
ÂŁ19.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-16-3
A photographers journey behind what was the Iron Curtain delivering a compelling narrative of both moral bankruptcy and flawed ideology. Featuring stunning imagery throughout, this stunning road trip through the old USSR, breathes new life into these forgotten places, finding both beauty and meaning in their post-apocalyptic decay.
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Dimensions 254x254mm Pagination 192pp Format Hardback
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Spinfluence The Hardcore Propaganda Manual Nick McFarlane
Interested in how to exploit
ÂŁ9.95
people for profit or power?
ISBN 978-1-908211-11-8 Dimensions 148x210mm Pagination 264pp Format Hardback
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Spinfluence is written from the perspective of an organisation who work directly for the 1%. But in a satirical twist the book exposes the amoral and highly unethical techniques used through propaganda to control the masses. Spinfluence will appeal to crooked politicians, media manipulators and corporate big-wigs alike, in fact anyone interested in how to exploit people for profit or power. Covering fun techniques and tactics such as emotional hijacking, brainwashing and hysteria harnessing. www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
Abandoned Futures A Journey to the Posthuman World Tong Lam
What will the end of the world look like?
£19.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-13-2
‘Abandoned Futures’ is a breathtaking global overview of the decay and abandonment that sits in the midsts of humanities constant push towards an uncertain future. It’s a visual epic dedicated to the edge of our power, where human industry fails and decay takes over. These are the landscapes that give the lie to our dreams of immortality. Humanity versus nature. It looks like we won the war. But at what cost? The new becomes old at first in centuries, then decades, now it’s merely measured in years. Is anyone driving this train?
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Dimensions 240x240mm Pagination 24pp Format Hardback
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Nightwatch Painting with Light Noel Kerns
Beautiful and stunning
£24.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-02-6 Dimensions 260x260mm Pagination 264pp Format Hardback
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North American night
photography
NIGHTWATCH: PAINTING WITH LIGHT is the first book from Kerns, one of the world’s foremost practitioners of the art of light-painting. Join him as he ventures into the darkness of the American Southwest, exploring remote desert ghost towns under a full moon, or prowling the abandoned, seemingly post-apocalyptic structures of America’s industrial wastelands.
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Out of Sight Urban Art in Abandoned Spaces RomanyWG
Art as buried treasure. Not all art craves attention
ÂŁ19.95 ISBN 978-0-9559121-7-7
Not all art craves attention, some of it hides in the secret places. Some of it is buried treasure, out in the urban wilderness, left scattered in empty rooms of derelict buildings like strange markings left by an unknown tribe. These works are gifts given only to the occasional explorer, found in abandoned factories, warehouses, industrial sites and deconsecrated churches. This is art you have to earn by leaving the designated areas and heading out past the No Entry signs of the urban environment.
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Dimensions 260x260mm Pagination 192pp Format Hardback
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The definitive Urbex book 5th print run As seen in The Sunday Times Magazine
Beauty in Decay Urbex RomanyWG
Take only pictures, leave only
ÂŁ19.95
footprints
ISBN 978-0-9559121-4-6 Dimensions 260x260mm Pagination 192pp Format Hardback
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"Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints." This is the unspoken rule of urban explorers, who sometimes risk their safety, police records, and even their lives to explore abandoned buildings, sewers and storm drains, transit tunnels, utility tunnels, high-security areas of inhabited buildings, and even catacombs such as those in Chenobyl, Rome, Odessa and Naples. Just who decides which doors are closed in our world and whose interests do they serve? www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
Follow up to best selling Beauty in Decay 3rd print run Explorations of European locations
Beauty in Decay II Urbex & The Art of Urban Exploration RomanyWG
This book is not about the
Urban Explorer, it’s about the places they explore
Beauty in Decay. Urbex and The Art of Urban Exploration published by CarpetBombingCulture in August 2010 broke new ground in exploring the global phenomenan of Urban Exploration. The original book garnered critical acclaim and polarised opionion while featuring across both national and international press including a Sunday Times feature. Two years on and RomanyWG has once again gone out in search of new locations to amaze the viewer for Beauty in Decay II, a further peak behind the Urbex curtain. This time the HDR is paired down and the spectacle ramped up. www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
ÂŁ19.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-10-1 Dimensions 260x260mm Pagination 192pp Format Hardback
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States of Decay Urbex New York & America’s forgotten North East Daniel Barter & Daniel Marbaix
Sit back and let us take you on a
£19.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-12-5 Dimensions 240x240mm Pagination 160pp Format Hardback
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walk around the rotten core of
the Bad Apple
A new breed of urban adventurers take a savage ride through the invisible story of the North Eastern USA. From NYC to the infamous Rust Belt, once home to America’s heavy industry, States of Decay brings you a glimpse of the broken, the doomed, the entropic dreamlands on the flipside of the silver dollar coin. This book will ask disturbing questions and inspire unexpected answers from anyone with an imagination and a heart. www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
Cutting edge street art Razor sharp commentary 5th print run
Untitled. Street Art in the Counter Culture Gary Shove
All in all it’s in a class of its own and all the better for it
...UKStreetArt
I've got every darn book printed on the scene including my now much revered first edition of Faith of Graffiti by dear dead Norman Mailer and this magnificent tome beats them all, even anything by El Banksy. Really it's a great book, part fiction, part document, it's in a category all of it's own...Beautiful Crime. Not to be filed under history, photography, design or nonfiction, as it contains outright lies and outrageous subjective opinion, this book is definitely about street art. It is also about now. www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
ÂŁ14.95 ISBN 978-0-9559121-0-8 Dimensions 234x221mm Pagination 196pp Format Hardback
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Follow up to the ground breaking Untitled. The best in worldwide street art Large format
Untitled. II The Beautiful Renaissance Gary Shove
Untitled was in a league of it's
own.. Untitled II has absolutely
ÂŁ14.95 ISBN 978-0-9559121-2-2 Dimensions 286x246mm Pagination 192pp Format Softback
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confirmed this, there's nothing
quite like it
Could Untitled II live up my expectations? In short, it does! I just pulled a half dozen street art books out off my shelf to compare, and it is clear that the guys behind Untitled II have spared no expense in printing or finding the best photos.But the truth is that pictures are only half the story with Untitled II. The text alone is reason to buy this book...Vandalog.
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Volume III of Untitled. showcases worldwide street art Includes Banksy in New Orleans
Untitled. III This is Street Art Gary Shove
Stunning imagery, beautiful
photography and amazing art
all come together in a
smorgasbord of illegal activity
£16.95 ISBN 978-0-9559121-5-3
Comical but quite cynical words gently probe and provoke the reader throughout on areas such as advertising, hype, society, urban life, rebellion, legislation and other street art related topics but it’s the quality of photography that set’s it head and shoulders above the current spate of pretenders.
Dimensions 235x230mm
Now I'm lucky enough to have part I and II here as well, and I read through both again to find if there is something that sets 'This is Street Art' apart from its predecessors, except the obvious of course. I'm happy to inform you that there isn't. They found the perfect formula to document and question what is happening, and to provoke the mind...Arden de Raaij
Format Hardback
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Pagination 192pp
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Altered Images New Visionaries in 21st Century Photography RomanyWG
ÂŁ24.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-00-2 Dimensions 260x260mm Pagination 192pp Format Hardback
Blurring the boundary of real and surreal, this book will provide fresh perspectives on photography featuring neverbefore-seen groundbreaking digital masterpieces while also giving a voice to the visionaries who created them. Showcasing those at the forefront of both craft and creativity the book features portraiture, landscape, digital manipulation, social realism, conceptual art, photorealism and digital photo montage.
Unventions Every Invention has an equal and opposite Unvention Cleon Daniel
ÂŁ9.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-03-3 Dimensions 210x210mm Pagination 108pp
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Format Hardback
Cleon Daniel has created a serious of illustrations challenging the way we look at banal everyday objects and has also invented a collection of bonkers alternative uses for them.
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Cement Eclipses Small Interventions in the Big City Isaac Cordal
£12.95 ISBN 978-0-9559121-8-4 Dimensions 214x146mm Pagination 256pp Format Hardback
Cordal’s concrete sculptures are like little magical gifts to the public that only a few lucky people will see and love but so many more will have missed. Left to their own devices throughout London Cordal what really makes these pieces magical is their placement. They bring new meaning to little corners of the urban environment.
Shitsville UK Monty Cantsin
£9.95 ISBN 978-1-908211-14-9 Dimensions 200x170mm Pagination 256pp Format Hardback www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk
I used to think that the British were classy, heaven knows, they’re miserable now. There’s a new book out and it’s saying that your home town is the most awful, vile, disgusting conurbation of degenerate, thumbless, vomit-faced, geneticthrowbacks the civilised world has ever known. You are outraged. You are also desperate to read exactly what it says. This is Shitsville UK.
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Quoteskine Volume 1 Lee Crutchley
Author of the top selling
‘How To Be Happy’ (or at least
£9.95 ISBN 978-0-9559121-9-1
Getting Started’
Dimensions 210x130mm
Call it anti-illustation if you want. Lee Crutchley's Quoteskine project takes doodling to a whole new level.
Pagination 144pp
It celebrates the love of drawing and the subject matter that inspires each image. Taking in references from movies, books, music, famous figures and even some self penned quotes.
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less sad) and ‘The Art Of
Quoteskine is drawing for grown ups.
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1977 will happen again. 1977 is happening somewhere, for someone, right now. PUNK LONDON 1977.
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