Some kinda vocation
By: Cheryl Dunn
Contributors: Nadel, Dan
Publisher: PictureBox Inc.; DAP, Distributed Art Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Brooklyn; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9780978972226
Subjects: Photography, Artistic; Street photography; Video art
Description: "Photographer and filmmaker Cheryl Dunn has been one of America's foremost chroniclers of the underground scene since the mid-1990s. This first retrospective looks at the worlds of street art, graffiti and life on the creative margins from an appreciative insider's point of view. It features documentary photographs of San Francisco artists like Barry McGee, Margaret Killgallen and Chris Johanson, with whom she shared a distinct and elusive sensibility, as well as others from Los Angeles and her home town of New York, including Phil Frost, Mike Mills and Ed Templeton. Also included is a DVD documenting the scene imported to Tokyo and focused on 13 artists in particular -- including McGee, Johanson, Mills, Killgallen, Templeton, Frost, Thomas Campbell, Stephen Powers, Tommy Guerrero, Josh Lozcano, Brendon Fowler and Aaron Rose. Through candid interviews, footage of art in action, and a massive demolition derby in the streets of Tokyo, the film captures these artists just before they broke through to the mainstream. It is about building things up, knocking them down and the simple enjoyment of making work with friends before the business of art takes hold. Features extra rare footage of all of the artists as well as short films about Johanson and Gonzales."--Amazon
Notes: "A conversation with Cheryl Dunn," Dan Nadel, New York, April 2007, p. 6-9

Accompanying DVD (affixed inside back cover) features short films "Creative Life Store" (65 min.), "Back Worlds for Words" (14 min.), "Pease Consideration Community: Warchild Benefit for the Yugoslavian Refugee Program" (1 min.), and "Some kinda vocation: outtakes and extras."