Published by Princeton University Press in association with No More Rulers, 2024 Linenbound hardcover, 152 pages 10.8 x 13.4 cm | 4.25 x 5.25 in Edited by Larry Warsh
ISBN: 9780691266299
From the publisher: JR is perhaps best known for taking portraits of regular people, reproducing the images at a monumental scale, and pasting them on the sides of buildings in the subjects’ neighborhoods. Among his many other notable projects are a gigantic photo of a child peering over the top of the barrier at the US-Mexico border and an enormous mural of inmates that covers the ground of an outdoor exercise yard at a California prison. Collected from interviews, writings, and other sources, JR-isms is an inspiring and thought-provoking collection of quotations from the exciting artist and activist, whose work reaches far beyond the traditional art world, from the streets of New York to the suburbs of Paris and the favelas of Brazil.
“I was writing my names on walls to say ‘I exist,’ then I started pasting pictures of people with their names to say they exist.”
