Urban Art Photography

At the end of the Eighties Jürgen Große began to document street art in Berlin with his camera. This new large-format illustrated volume contains a selection from twenty years of intensive field research.

However, over the last twenty years in particular Berlin has changed to a dramatic extent, which means that these photographs are witnesses both of a highly ephemeral subversive artistic intervention and of an architectural urban metamorphosis. The street art which achieves and displays greatness goes well beyond classical graffiti and in its playfully witty appropriation of the city it has a certain similarity with Dada, Ready Mades, Land Art and Minimalism.

Jürgen Große: "Well, it's also about photography, but that's only the last link in the chain. I don't even know if I'd go out without a camera any more these days. It's also about capturing things. But actually it's about freedom, the feeling of being on the road. Walking down streets, courtyards and open spaces, entering empty houses and abandoned construction sites. And it's about the feeling I get when I discover something that I like, something that surprises me or irritates me. You wouldn't believe how overjoyed I am when I find something."

Facts:
Author: www.urban-art.info, Jürgen Große
216 pages, numerous illustrations
Format 29,7 x 32,0 cm, bound
Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag Berlin 2008
Publisher's recommended price: 49.90 EUR
Language: deutsch/englisch
ISBN: 978-3-89955-205-8

All photographs from Urban Art Photography by Gestalten