PUBLISHING

BEYOND THE STREETS is pleased to release the latest publication from well-respected, and L.A. native photographer, Gregory Bojorquez.  This new 112-page zine tells an intimate story of East LA through his lens.

Compiled by Roger Gastman, the Beyond the Streets New York City companion book provides an in-depth look into the work of graffiti and street art’s most iconic figures. This book spans multiple decades and honors the diverse and boundary pushing stories that helped turn vandalism into a contemporary art.

Felipe Pantone’s new monograph,Praesentia, meaning ‘present time’ in Latin,
highlights the last ten years of his studio work and global installations. Showcasing over 250 illustrations, photos and essays by friends and contemporaries, plus personal
anecdotes, it is Pantone’s most comprehensive collection of work to date.

1983's Wild Style, the film that immortalized the streets of the South Bronx and New York’s East Village arts scene forever, and gave the rest of the world its first look at breakdancing, graffiti, rapping and DJing, and nothing has been the same since.

Now, we are thrilled to present Wild Style, the zine, containing rare candid photos of the biggest names in late 70s/early 80s New York: Debbie Harry, Fab 5 Freddy, Grandmaster Caz, DONDI, Patti Astor, Frosty Freeze, Rammellzee, Zephyr, Busy Bee, Fantastic Five, FUTURA, Lady Pink, as well as outtakes and ephemera from the film, videos and streets.

Magic Touch is an artistic expression that celebrates the creative follies of Canarsie homeowners from the late 20th century – a sort of shade-tree tattoo parlor that might exist on your cousin Carmine’s back porch from a time when Cadillac was king and you picked your tattoo design off the wall. In this installation, celebrated New York tattoo artist Bert Krak has reproduced sheets of flash inspired by his late friend and mentor Tony Polito, while Alexis Ross has continued to secure his footing as the consummate shill, who is neither tattoo man nor street art man.The first incarnation of Magic Touch debuted at BEYOND THE STREETS in Brooklyn New York in 2019. An impressive lineup of tattooers organized by Bert Krak put in hard work through the summer on well over 100 visitors.This book compiles Magic Touch’s unique moments from the build, events, visitors, tattoos, meals and candid moments – plus over 50 full size sheets of hand panted vintage tattoo flash that were on display. It’s pretty much the best thing to being there.Tattooers featured include: Bert Krak, Eli Quinters, Frank William, Kane Gordon, Steve Boltz, Chad Koeplinger, Mario Desa, Mike Wilson & Rich Fie.

NOGA, the Nation of Graffiti Artists, was an artist’s workshop located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and later on, in the Bronx. It was the utopian vision of Jack Pelsinger, who begged the city for a studio where kids of all talent levels could further their interests in the arts. The 1970s were a time in New York’s history where a request like this could be accommodated, the city leased the group a run-down storefront for $1 dollar a month in 1974. Like moths drawn to a light, the kids showed up, hundreds of them.A ragtag bunch of teenagers helped him clear garbage from the space and build it out (while covering it in tags and pieces, of course). For some of them, it was the first time holding a brush or spray can. Some had painted a few trains before, and soon some of the biggest names of the era became regulars (SCORPIO, BLOOD TEA, ALI, STAN 153, SAL 161and CLIFF 159).Photojournalist Michael Lawrence documented the experiment from 1974 to 1979. NOGA’s focus was teaching neighborhood kids how to paint, blending the boundaries between workshop and radical politics thinktank as kids were taught to bring their artwork to local protests, sell their canvases in street fairs, and exhibit murals on buildings. It was a lesson in creative capitalism but for most of the participants, the true payoff was in finding their voice.NOGA couldn’t exist in today’s world, but Michael Lawrence’s photos serve as an excavation of hidden history, allowing us to step back in time to when New York was still rough around the edges, and better for it. Here the story of the experience is told by the workshop’s surviving members and through Lawrence’s extraordinary images.

The Perez Bros. eat, breath, photograph and paint lowrider car culture like no one else.  Growing up in South Gate, California Alejandro and Vicente were born into a family of motor-heads, so it was only a matter of time before the identical twins took to documenting customized vehicles and the homies who love them.  Both attended Otis College of Art and Design to pursue degrees in Fine Art focusing on painting, which is when they started collaborating as an artistic duo.  Their photographs, murals and paintings capture slices of SoCal life as only locals can.World premiere of lowrider car culture photos, and acrylics on paper, by Southern California’s Perez Bros.  Candy colors and hittin’ switches at sunset—it’s all here for lovers of the low-lows.

In partnership with 1XRUN and Rock The Bells, we're proud to publish the expanded edition of Born In The Bronx: A Visual Record of The Early Days of Hip Hop by Joe Conzo, Jr.!Conzo's Born In The Bronx is the preeminent resource on the birth of the genre. Long out of print, this hardcover book is finally revitalized with new photos and an essay by LL COOL J.Joe Conzo, Jr. captured African-American and Latino life in the South Bronx, New York between 1976 and 1984. Known worldwide as "The Man Who Took Hip-Hop's Baby Pictures," Conzo is responsible for keeping intimate records of an otherwise little-documented period in history.

David Villorente is one of the foremost practitioners and ambassadors of graffiti culture in the world. His reign as the eleven-year editor of the "Graf Flix" feature in The Source magazine helped cement his position as an important arbiter within the global graffiti community.

The Fly Tip Theater puppets are mutant creations born of collaboration between Brooklyn-based BAST and London’s Paul INSECT. Musing on their shared love of puppets as kids and both without experience in traditional puppet making, the artists crafted the puppets from found and recycled materials. The characters often reference music and graffiti culture, with personas based loosely on celebrities, cartoons or those observed while people watching. Personas such as Tony the Tagger, Michael Wackson, Kid Ice and MC Salty first sprang to life in Insect’s Instagram videos, catching the eye of Banksy and leading to an appearance in his dystopian Dismaland installation. Insect and BAST also make films of themselves dancing around in various costumes they’ve created, from oversized boomboxes to animal heads, all keeping with both artists’ practice of public anonymity.

Paris-raised creative André Saraiva, or simply André, has earned a worldwide reputation for making the impossible seem possible through his various artistic endeavors, which run the gamut from graffiti to collaborations with couture fashion houses to curated nightclubs around the world. In this special zine by the artist, we catch a glimpse of André’s trademark creativity and humor.

Published in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Paul’s boutique, the second studio album by legendary hip hop group, Beastie Boys. The zine is a collection of ephemera and handwritten lyrics. The zine was published in conjunction with adidas.

People in love just can’t shut up about it. Sometimes it’s not enough to say it — we have to spray it on a freeway overpass, etch it onto a school desk in ballpoint pen, write it in the sky by way of small aircraft or carve it into the old oak tree with a pocketknife, too. This zine by Beyond the Streets curator, Roger Gastman explores the relationship between love and vandalism.

A visual compilation of over 500 vintage spray paint cans from the collection of Roger Gastman. Photography by Beau Roulette.

A collection of artworks and images from Action Bronson.

A collection of album covers that celebrate graffiti in some sense. Each album is from the collection of Trash Records.

Coming in at 500 pages, with over 1000 color images, BEYOND THE STREETS is releasing a few copies of the Los Angeles companion book to the groundbreaking exhibition of graffiti, street art and beyond from 2018. It features over 100 artists, most of whom would have stolen it at one point in their careers. A few of them still will, just because they can.This book is a good steal, so you can’t really blame them. It features countless stories, interviews and articles of ups and downs, twists and turns, tall tales and great success, mixed in with some historical and critical essays and words of wisdom from the best of the best of the best. And for those of you who don’t like to read, there are over a thousand images to flip through and make yourself feel smarter.

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Photography and stories from Venice-based documentary style photographer Josh "Bagel" Klassman.