Graffiti (a text of Philippe Delerm translated by Vadim Bystritski) — Before and After Francis Ponge

Previously, graffiti’s connotations were always negative — the unwanted texts in inappropriate places: obscenities in public bathrooms, dirty little words claiming to reveal something and shamelessly posing as audacious, or simply as a desire to disfigure a wall. Then suddenly an art was born, an art of sublimated solitude, Graf, selected by random mutation of […]

Graffiti (a text of Philippe Delerm translated by Vadim Bystritski) — Before and After Francis Ponge

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Brassaï’s close-ups of graffiti carved and painted on Parisian city walls were first seen in the Surrealist magazine Minotaure in 1933, however he would continue to photograph images of graffiti for the next three decades, culminating in the publication of the book, Graffiti, in 1961. With this project, ‘the eye of Paris’ as he was called […]

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