LAYUP Highlights T-Shirt Thomas Christ - Instant Recognition
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In the early 1980s, New York was the epicentre of the graffiti and street art scenes. In the middle of it all is Swiss art historian and lawyer Thomas Christ with his camera. He follows the painted subways into the Bronx to photograph them and meets young sprayers there who want to escape their precarious conditions. After his return, Christ presented the precise pictures and his lucid reflections on the backgrounds of illegal graffiti in the publication "Subway Graffiti" (1984) and in an exhibition at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Basel.
He is thus one of the few to provide visual material for the pioneers of the Swiss hip-hop scene. Shortly afterwards, in the follow-up publication "Urban Graffiti" (1987), Christ also deals with the work of Richard Hambleton and Keith Haring, making him one of the first to address the relationship and difference between graffiti and street art. Now the two publications have been reissued in the book Instant Recognition, supplemented by never-before-seen images and documents from Thomas Christ's private archive.

One of the iconic photos from the book is available here on a T-shirt - with an elaborate six-colour hand-printed silkscreen on the front of a fairly produced black T-shirt made of organic cotton.  

100% organic cotton, Fairwear certified.