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Artist: Jon Naar
Graffiti Art Photograph Silkscreen Print Truck New York City 1970s Pop Art
By Jon Naar
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Photographic
Subject: Cityscape
Medium: Silkscreen of Photograph
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
Dimensions: 21.5" x 28"
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Graffiti Art Photograph Silkscreen Print Wall New York City 1970s Pop Art
By Jon Naar
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Photographic
Subject: Cityscape
Medium: Silkscreen of Photograph
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
Dimensions: 21.5" x 28"
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Graffiti Art Photograph Silkscreen Print Park New York City 1970s Pop Art
By Jon Naar
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Photographic
Subject: Cityscape
Medium: Silkscreen of Photograph
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
Dimensions: 19" x 28"
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Graffiti Art Photograph Silkscreen Print Subway Station NYC 1970s Pop Art
By Jon Naar
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Photographic
Subject: Cityscape
Medium: Silkscreen of Photograph
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
Dimensions: 20.5" x 28"
Street Art, Urban
Jon Naar is a British-American author and photographer celebrated for his pioneering images of New York City graffiti in the 1970s. Still active in his nineties, Naar has had a multifaceted career as an intelligence officer in World War II; a globe-trotting executive during the postwar years; and an environmentalist, with nine published books to date.
Born in London in 1920, Naar graduated at 15 from the private Mill Hill School. Too young to attend an English university, he crossed the Channel to study French and German at the Sorbonne. At this point, Naar had yet to develop a special interest in photography, but his artistic and design sensibilities were being shaped by his Parisian influences, particularly the street photographs of Brassaï. Four years later, his matriculation at the University of London cut short by the outbreak of World War II, Naar was conscripted. Thanks to prior experience in the Officers' Training Corps at Mill Hill, he would spend the next six years on intelligence work, including service with the British Special Operations Executive, on clandestine assignments that took him through the Middle East and Italy. At war's end, by-then Major Naar emigrated to New York City and secured American citizenship.
Through the 1950s, armed with a Super Ikonta rangefinder camera and later a Praktica single-lens reflex, Naar was developing his eye as a "weekend" photographer, roving his Greenwich Village neighborhood and seeking out subject matter while on foreign corporate assignments.
It was not until Naar's early forties, after influential photographers Nickolas Muray and André Kertész—both impressed by his hobbyist portfolio—offered encouragement, that he resolved to seek wider exposure as a photographer. A series of street scenes Naar shot in Mexico City in 1962 was featured in a 1963 solo exhibition in Coyoacan titled "El Ojo de un Estranjero." His 23-page photo essay on Germany, 20 years after the death of Adolph Hitler, appeared in the Italian design magazine Domus. New York Times critic Joseph Deschin, reviewing Naar's 1965 one-man show at New York University's Loeb Student Center, extolled his "flair for design and an eye for the unexpected, his pictures generate the kind of excitement that one associates with discovery of newness in the familiar." The striking image "Shadows of Children on Swings" was selected by Ivan Dmitri for the Metropolitan Museum's "Photography in the Fine Arts" exhibition, and for its permanent collection. Within the span of a few years, Naar had not only transformed himself into a professional photographer, but was in demand as a contributor to major publications like The New York Times, The Saturday Evening Post, Vogue, Fortune, Elle, and Schöner Wohnen.
If Naar had a specialty at that time, it was photographing artists and architects amidst their creative (and created) surroundings. One of his earliest and most enduring images featured a young Andy Warhol sprawled on a red plush...
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"Tree" from Faith of Graffiti, 1974, Serigraph by Jon Naar
By Jon Naar
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jon Naar
Title: Tree from Faith of Graffiti
Year: 1974
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, AP
Size: 19 x 28 inches
Printed by Circle Press, Chicago
Published by Documentary Photos NYC Graffiti...
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"Toots" from Faith of Graffiti, 1974, Serigraph by Jon Naar
By Jon Naar
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jon Naar
Portfolio: Faith of Graffiti
Title: Toots from Faith of Graffiti
Year: 1974
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 300
Size: 24.5 x 34 inches
Printed by Circle Press, Chicago
Published by Documentary Photos NYC Graffiti...
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"Red Doc" from Faith of Graffiti, 1974, Serigraph by Jon Naar
By Jon Naar
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jon Naar
Title: Red Doc from Faith of Graffiti
Year: 1974
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 300
Size: 34 x 24.5 inches
Printed by Circle Press, Chicago
Published by Documentary Photos NYC Graffiti...
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"155th Street" from Faith of Graffiti, 1974, Serigraph by Jon Naar
By Jon Naar
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jon Naar, British (1920 - )
Title: 155th Street from the Faith of Graffiti portfolio
Year: 1974
Medium: Serigraph, Signed and Numbered in pencil
Edition: 250
Size: 20.5 x 28 inches
Frame: 26 x 34 inches
Printed by Circle Press, Chicago
Published by Documentary Photos NYC Graffiti...
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"Nixon" from Faith of Graffiti, 1974, Serigraph by Jon Naar
By Jon Naar
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jon Naar
Title: Nixon from Faith of Graffiti
Year: 1974
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 300
Size: 24.5 x 34 inches
Printed by Circle Press, Chicago
Published by Documentary Photos NYC Graffiti...
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"Eddie" from Faith of Graffiti, 1974, Serigraph by Jon Naar
By Jon Naar
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jon Naar, British (1920 - )
Title: Eddie from Faith of Graffiti
Year: 1974
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250
Size: 24.5 x 34 inches
Printed by Circle Press, Chicago
Published by Documentary Photos NYC Graffiti...
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1970s Street Art Jon Naar Art
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"Rube" from Faith of Graffiti, 1974, Serigraph by Jon Naar
By Jon Naar
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jon Naar
Title: Rube from Faith of Graffiti
Year: 1974
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, AP
Size: 21.5 x 28 inches
Printed by Circle Press, Chicago
Published by Documentary Photos NYC Graffiti...
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