WIEDER DA @ MZIN: CAP CREW PRAG — CREW AGAINST PEOPLE

CAP crew (Bleze, Most, Masker, Dirty, Dize, Teve) was founded in Prague in 2005. The light, playful and childish style was always characteristic of the creations of the group’s individuals. Originally associated with the beginning style of New York graffiti, CAP gradually began to form sharp opinions where they came together against the rest of Prague’s graffiti community, which in that time was experiencing a crisis and therefore they divided the graffiti scene into two camps, supporters and opponents. The creations of CAP are still fun, yet they are more critical regarding tradition and dogmatic proce- dures, which is the source for discussions and disagreements. Perceptions of style and originality, the hierarchy between artists, as well as the idealized content and new visualizations in graffiti are the themes that CAP has dealt with over its two year functioning period.
In the book CAP - Crew Against People, 250 colored pages offer a selection of the group’s pieces which was one of the first to begin creat- ing their graffiti in the location of “Brown Fields” . Due to this fact, the majority of photographs come from this location. The book further contains photographs from legal surfaces of a critical character, responding to the actual situation of Prague’s graffiti scene, photographs from travels to foreign countries (Russia, Ukraine, Spain...), pieces from the representatives of the crew from its earlier years of functioning and others. Along with photographs text is included which stems from interviews with the members of CAP crew. The text describes the whole situation around the formation and foundation of the group, its development, sources of inspiration, and reasons from conflicts with the rest of the graffiti scene and captions to individual pieces of work.
Technical information about the product: Thermography binding (V2), format B5, 250 full color pages + 50 grayscale pages (appendix), all wrapped up in poster with both sides printed in grayscale, appendix and poster in 3 paper color variations (pink, yellow, green), publishing: biggboss, authors: CAP