{"product_id":"downtown-drive-by-jon-waldo-9781963814347","title":"Downtown Drive-By: NYC Graffiti \u0026 Street Art '81-'84","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDowntown Drive-by\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eJon Waldo\u003c\/b\u003e provides a visual, time capsule from a very different New York. The city was cheap and incredibly interesting at that time. New, challenging art and music seemed to appear every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraffiti was evolving, too. Uptown and on the trains, incredible wild-style pieces were blowing up. Downtown was alive with a flux of messages and marks. Beautiful images were turning up one day and painted over the next--with images bleeding into each other and colliding in unexpected ways. \u003cb\u003e\"The visual energy was incredible and life-changing for me.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWaldo had graduated from art school a year earlier and the work he was interested in was very conceptual and minimal. It asked a lot of questions about the formal aspects of artwork. \u003cb\u003e\"But Downtown quickly taught me what art could be. Graffiti was a public art for everyone to see. You didn't have to be enclosed in a gallery situation. You could just see it and do it.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWaldo's\u003c\/b\u003e first job when he got back to the city was driving a truck and delivering art supplies for David Davis. His store sold to everybody and he got to go to a lot of cool studios but was captivated by the work he saw on the street while driving between deliveries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Photography for me was an expensive proposition, but almost unconsciously, I got a used camera and just started taking pictures when I was driving for work. I had the need to possess what I saw.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese pictures are a portal. They are from a world of terrible tragedy and great creativity. \u003cb\u003e\"I feel blessed to be a witness to that time.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jon Waldo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1963814347\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781963814347\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blurring Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Jon Waldo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001096610047,"sku":"9781963814347","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/downtown-drive-by-jon-waldo-9781963814347","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}