NO SLEEP : NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988-1999 NEW Hip Hop, Rap & House HARDCOVER
No Sleepis a visual history of the halcyon days of New York City
club life as told through flyer art. Spanning the late 80s through the
late 90s, when nightlife buzz travelled via flyers and word of mouth,No
Sleepfeatures a collection of artwork from the personal archives of NYC
DJs, promoters, club kids, nightlife impresarios, and the artists
themselves. Club flyers, by design, were ephemeral objects distributed
on street corners, outside of nightclubs and concert halls, in
barbershops and retail shops, and were not intended to be preserved for
posterity. Through the 90s, they became both increasingly prevalent and
more sophisticated as printing technology evolved. Overnight, however,
with the advent of the internet, theflyer essentially disappeared,
despite it being common at one time for promoters to print thousands of
flyers for any given event. Recently, these flyers have become
sought-after collector's items.
256pp
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