Passing Through Moving And Getting Away With It

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Passing Through, Moving In, and Getting Away With It presents Gordon Matta-Clark’s extensive photographic documentation of New York City graffiti between 1972 and 1973. Comprising over 1,000 pages, the publication reproduces every frame from the artist’s original rolls of film, sequenced according to the contact sheets preserved in his archive. Widely regarded as some of the earliest visual records of New York graffiti, the photographs reveal Matta-Clark’s growing fascination with the movement as it spread across the city’s walls, subways, and train yards. Accompanied by texts from Antonio Sergio Bessa and Jonathan Lethem, the book offers an unprecedented look into a remarkable archive, uncovering previously unseen images and providing new insight into both the artist’s practice and the early history of graffiti culture. Show more