Angelo Sindaco
Skinstreet
- ISBN: 978-88-88493-35-0
- Format: Softcover, 21x28cm, 160pp
- Published: 2008
- Price: 20 €
Welcome to Skinstreet the first book published on the skin head subculture since 1982. After the success of "Amplified Youth", an amazing reportage on the indie scene and the new rock ‘n roll fever, Angelo Sindaco continues to dig into the roughest faults of modernity. The challenge, this time, is in the controversial, usually demonized, world of the shaved heads. A former skinhead himself, Angelo Sindaco rivisits his past through the eye of the camera and immortalizes one of the most esoteric tribes of our time. "A world apart", tells the author, "hard to approach". Radical, too, is the code required of the adepts. It Starts with the initiation rite of shaving; boots, leather jackets and heavy tattoos complete the dress-code of these urban warriors that, since the Sixties, have remained true to their roots in the white working class.
This phenomenon ends under the lights of the mediatic circus: on the catwalks and the fashion magazines. But the "gonzos" of the most fleeting and indomitable counter-culture doesn’t surrender to the tempations of the showbusiness. On the contrary, they continue to protectively foster their identity, avoiding all sorts of contaminations. Hard and pure until the end. Through the eye of Angelo Sindaco, it will be possible to discover them in their extreme and unsettling habitat. An alien dimension inhabited by secular "krishnas", devoted to resistance. This is not a political book, it does not celebrate violence. Skinstreet is an iconoclast lifestyle book, a fashion book, a subculture book and a photography book all in one.
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Praise for Skinstreet
[Vogue Italia]
Skinstreet di Angelo Sindaco, in uscita per Drago. “Nessun intento politico o ideologico. Nessuna condanna e nessuna apologia. Era l’estetica che mi interessava. Però non quella superficiale, fredda e distaccata. Volevo misurare da dentro la forza del fascino che emana dal loro modo di porsi” spiega Sindaco.
Angelo Sindaco’s Skinstreet, is being published by Drago publishing. “Without ideological or political intent. No sentences and no apologies. I was only interested in aesthetics. But not superficial, stiff or detached aesthetics. I wanted to measure from inside the power of glamour that radiated from their way of thinking” Sindaco explained.
[Style - Corriere della Sera]
Il primo reggae, la multiculturalità, la reazione allo sbracamento psichedelico e l’evoluzione generazionale dell’ondata modernista Anni ’60, sono i punti cardine di quella sottocultura meglio nota al mondo col nome di skinhead. Uno stile netto, pulito, preciso; una rivolta nello stile. Non a caso si parla di “Spirit of 69”. Tenete a mente questo affresco mentre sfogliate Skinstreet: The Skinhead Way of Life, ultima fatica editoriale del fotografo e art director Angelo Sindaco, uscito per i tipi di Drago.
The first reggae, multiculturalism, the reaction to psychedelic derailment and the general evolution that came from the modernist wave of the Sixties, are the cardinal points of the subculture better known to the world as skinhead. A clear, clean and precise style; a revolutionary style. We are not casually talking about the “spirit of 69”. Keep this fresh in mind while you flip through Skinstreet: The Skinhead Way of Life, the last editorial effort of photographer and art director Angelo Sindaco, published for people like those who work at Drago.
