Big Up

Ben Watts

Covering a broad range of subjects from street photography to fashion shoots and hip-hop culture to high school wrestlers, this collection of images from a top photographer is a visual diary, providing a new look at what it means to be young and urban. Short notes and memorabilia are included, and the photos are assembled in fantastic collages that are humorous and insightful at the same time.

“The spontaneity and verve Watts packs into his pictures are perfectly mirrored in the book’s ... scrapbook-style design. Cut up, collaged, crayoned and tagged with markers, the photos feel less like fixed, flattened documents than little time bombs about to explode.” —Village Voice

Award-winning photographer Ben Watts is a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, Interview and the New York Times Magazine. He lives in New York City.

Princeton Architectural Press
Available: 08/01/04
7 x 8 1/3 · 192 pages
978-1-56898-452-0
CDN $39.00 · pb

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