Craig Castleman’s Black & White Archive

(2025)

*** Kickstarter project ***

Delivery scheduled for January 2026.

During his years of research on graffiti in the 1970s and 1980s, Craig Castleman came into contact with different writers, struck up personal friendships with some of them, and immersed himself in the graffiti subculture. Thanks to these contacts and his need to analyze the graffiti phenomenon from all angles (police, city council, MTA), Craig took numerous photographs of the New York subway system, the writers who explored these playgrounds, and their creations.

Many of these photographs were taken in black and white and have been stored in slides and boxes of negatives for years. Craig's donation of this photographic archive in 2019 to the Contorno Urbano Foundation and the Asociación Indague has led us today to reproduce them in this small 64-page fanzine, created to complement the graphic documentation of graffiti that we addressed in “Levantarse otra vez: 40 años después” (Rising Again: 40 Years Later) and which we are now expanding in “Nasty Stuff” (2025).

Craig Castleman's Black & White Archive is an A5-format digitally printed publication. Its pages take us back to the late 1970s and early 1980s and allow us to savor its scenes alongside the creations and tags of classic writers such as Iz The Wiz, Cap, Sonic, Zephyr, Mitch77, Blade, Sin One, Pjay, Lee Quiñones, Duro, and others.

Author: Craig Castleman
Publisher: Contorno Urbano
Size: A5
Pages: 64
Retail price: €15
Instagram: @contorno_urbano
Website: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/contornourbano/nasty-stuff-craig-castleman-interviews-and-graffiti-archive