Gates of Graffiti

The first book to focus on tags, their design, and how writers communicate with them, a unique chance to understand what tags are about and how beautiful they can be. The tags in these photos are on the streets of New York, Berlin, Paris Stockholm and other cities around the world. Doors are a popular target for graffiti writers as they make good frames for the faster forms of graffiti and street art such as tags, stencils and posters. In a doorway one can sneak in and execute art without being noticed. Tags are the origin of graffiti art and is the purest and rawest form of it. The texts are written by the well-known graffiti writers.