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Urban Art PhotographyBerlin is a particularly strong magnet for international street artists and its landscape is filled with artwork and signatures that are inventing new visual codes.
But the impressions that these artists leave are inevitably fleeting as their art falls victim to the city's unrelenting development.
Luckily, the book Urban Art Photography serves as a permanent documentation and time capsule of both the creation and evolution of these constantly changing images.
Urban centres such as Barcelona, Paris and Berlin are places whose landscapes are characterised by anonymously created artwork and signatures that are inventing new visual codes.
This street art is much more than mere graffiti.
In addition to using spray paint, today's enterprising urban artists use stencils, wheat paste and found objects to manifest their ideas.
They work in an interdisciplinary way and are often creative nomads travelling and working their way through cities around the world.
Berlin is a particularly strong magnet for international street artists, inviting them to leave their mark.
But the impressions that they leave are inevitably fleeting as their art falls victim to the city's unrelenting development.
Luckily, editor and photographer Jürgen Große has worked with Michael Bonk for years to track and archive Berlin's urban art.
Urban Art Photography presents artwork from Berlin that communicates with its environment in a subversive way.
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