Nearly 40 years ago, Roger Perry’s major tome of London’s emerging graffiti scene was the first of its kind. Now you can’t walk through a museum shop without being inundated with books about the graffiti scene, but Perry’s images captured a social consciousness that maybe today’s street artists aren’t as concerned with. He literally photographed the message on the wall. Here, you can travel back to the beginning of a counter culture that paved the way for a generation of artists with the display of images that have been rarely seen in four decades.
SEE 10 AMAZING PICTURES OF GRAFFITI BY ROGER PERRY HERE