![]() The name Edward Nightingale has become associated with captivating graffiti images and the photographer also contributes some exceptional examples in a section showing an action involving one of the few remaining 4020’s.Īmongst the flicks the book contains an entertaining essay, ‘Form Follows Function’, by Moses™ in which a Palaeolithic origin story of graffiti is imagined as arising from a lovers tiff in a Mediterranean cave. A personal favourite doesn’t even contain any graff but instead shows two 4020’s lit up by a lamp in an otherwise pitch black scene. ![]() It’s not just the sharp cornered alpine shapes, which have become the signature style of Astro, that are a pleasure to look at but the entire photographic content is top-notch. It’s the hardcore damage that most readers are gonna be after and the book doesn’t disappoint as two hundred pieces grace the pages of this book. The 4020 is currently in the closing stages of being withdrawn by Austria’s national rail operator and so this project serves as something of a nostalgic farewell. Spread over nearly three hundred pages, short essays by various contributors narrate the pieces documented within. ![]() More specifically the book focuses on the body of work produced by Astro on the ET4020 model of electric multiple units that operate on the Vienna S-bahn. In this case Schnellbahn is a photographic monograph presenting the work of Astro Polygon over a two and a half year period. It’s not too often that publications focusing on a single artist are featured on the Graffiti Review.
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