From Library Journal
Skateboarding, graffiti, and hip-hop music compose youth cultures tripartite soul. Once sacred to inner-city kids, this religion has spread to the suburbs and small towns of America and Europe. For this visual atlas, Marecki has selected photos, montages, illustrations, and a few articles from Berlins Lodown magazineof which he is publisher and art directorthat capture the color, speed, and glee of those controversial thirds. Contributing writer Anderas Hesse calls the collected images Post-Pop-Pre-Shrink-Art. Like Warhol with his Marilyns, graphic artist Shepard Fairey uses the late pro wrestler Andre the Giants likeness in an international poster campaign; kids turn boredom into gravity-defying tricks on skateboardsearning fame that lasts closer to 15 seconds. Arty or not, this title will not lessen the status quos prejudice against the skate-spray-can-hip-hop movement (one montage features naked women with grotesquely large breasts). Public libraries should first purchase a history that explains the movements ideasNelson Georges Hip Hop America (LJ 9/15/98) or Jeff Ferrells Crimes of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality (Northeastern Univ., 1996). Recommended for large graphic arts collections only.Heather McCormack, Library Journal
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From the Publisher
This is the first visual atlas to bring together the creative forces behind the complete Skate-,Snow-, and Surfboard scene. With dynamic action photography and overkill imagery, Lodown documents the fashion and the design, the music of drum n' bass and hip-hop, the humor, the sex and vibes of this ultra vivid scene at play.
WARNING: Photos contain some nudity
