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Messengers Style

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The photographs in this book are amazing...this is one of the coolest books on street style to come out in a long time. The cover and packaging are kinda funky too (it comes with this rubber belly band). If you live in New York, there's a good chance you'll recognise one of these whacky looking messengers. Original.

you've honked at those crazy mthrfkrs weaving through traffic with bags of cargo and walkie talkies--but you've never asked yourself if they can write poetry; or if they represent the last stand of american fashion--postpunk primitive mad max though it may be. if you live in the sticks, buy this book and pretend you see bicycle messengers all the time. if you're the city mouse, quit your worthless job and get yerself 2 wheels.

I had hoped for a collection of pictures of bike messengers from around the United States. Instead, judging by the pictures, the authors decided to only include messengers from the New York City area. NYC messengers have a reputation for being among the best in the world, so I wasn't too disappointed. I would have liked to have seen pics of messengers from Chicago, San Francisco, DC, etc. included as well.

The book gives a good glimpse of NYC messenger style, despite it being only 100 pages thick. If the author had wanted to, he could have sought pictures of messengers from around the USA to include, making for a longer book and, perhaps, a wider variety of styles.

The subjects included in the book have been messengers for various periods of time, ranging from a few months to a couple of decades. So, rookies are included, along with veteran messengers.

The photos were well done and shot by obvious professionals in a studio, rather than having been taken out on the streets where the messengers really work and I felt the photos to be a little too posed-looking. I think pics of the messengers actually out on the streets would have provided a better, more honest, book. I had the feeling that Messenger Syle looked more like a clothing catalog, rather than a real pictorial of bike messengers.

I bought the book out of curiousity and I skim-through it, once in awhile when I'm bored. Overall, I liked the book, despite what I felt its shortcomings to be.

If you want to take a look at NYC bike messengers, this book gives a good glimpse. Don't expect too much, though.

The photos were so cool. Alot of interesting styles that are timeless. Brings me back to NYC!