New York street artist Swoon's New Book

September 26, 2009

We have been meaning to post this for a week or two now and have just got around to taking some pictures.

New York street artist Swoon

We are massive fans of the work of street artist Swoon and don't know why we haven't come across this publication before this.

While not exactly new, the book was published in October 2008 by Deitch Projects to accompany Swoon's "Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea" fall 2008 exhibition at Deitch's Long Island City project space. We have only just stumbled upon it recently on Amazon.

Featuring over 64 pages, this first monograph documents the artist's exhibitions from 2005 to 2007 including her 2005 show at Deitch and 11 Spring Street, as well as collaborations created in Russia, Ukraine, and throughout the United States.

While the main focus of the photography in the book is Swoon's gallery work, it does feature a small section of street work including some of Swoon's very early street work before she began creating the beautifully elaborate cut-out pieces that we now know her for.

Also in the book is a short essay written by Swoon about how and why she started to work on the streets.