The Faith is the bible of graffiti. It forever captures the place thetime and the writings of those of us who made it happen. Snake I In1973 author Norman Maile... » 

The Faith is the bible of graffiti. It forever captures the place thetime and the writings of those of us who made it happen. Snake I In1973 author Norman Mailer teamed with photographer Jon Naar to produce TheFaith of Graffiti a fearless exploration of the birth of the street artmovement in New York City. The book coupled Mailers essay on the origins andimportance of graffiti in modern urban culture with Naars radiant arrestingphotographs of the young graffiti writers work. The result was a powerfulimpressionistic account of artistic ferment on the streets of a troubled andchanging cityand an iconic documentary record of a critical body of work nowlargely lost to history. This new edition of The Faith of Graffiti thefirst in more than three decades brings this vibrant workthe seminaldocument on the origins of street artto contemporary readers. PhotographerJon Naar has enhanced the original with thirtytwo pages of additionalphotographs that are new to this edition along with an afterword in which hereflects on the project and the meaning it has taken on in the interveningdecades. It stands now as it did then as a rich survey of a group of outsiderartists and the body of work they createdand a provocative defense of ageneration that questioned the bounds of authority over aesthetics. «