Street Art: The Spray Files - Louis BouLouis Bou's book is an excellent, handsomely printed overview of the international Street Art scene, attempting to provide helpful genres of classification for the myriad of types of representations to be found in cities around the world. From Stencils to Stickers to City Textures, the book lovingly documents each style with chapters filled with beautifully laid-out photos of prime examples of each. Louis Bou, a Barcelona-based graphic designer by trade, is not only the author of the book, he also took all of the photographs inside and did all of the design and layout work for the tome as well.
From Banksy, the artist who famously hung one of his pieces in London's Tate gallery, to Milan's unsettling Microbo and the Japanese-culture-influenced work of Barcelona's Btoy, the reader is treated to hundreds of exquisite examples from dozens of artists. Bou is clearly a gifted photographer with a great feel for the environments where the art is created. The reader is spirited from the streets of Bilbao to the alleys of Paris to the sidewalks of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean to see the various pieces.
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