Street Market: Barry McGee, Stephen Powers, Todd James

Street Market is the book record of one of the defining street-art installations of its moment: the salvage-yard bodega that Barry McGee, Stephen Powers and Todd James built, wrecked and rebuilt inside the gallery, transposing a whole block of storefront vernacular into an art space.

Published by Little More in Tokyo in 2000 and edited by Taka Kawachi, with photographs by Cheryl Dunn, the 144-page volume documents the fabricated shopfronts, hand-lettered signage, overturned delivery truck and shelves of invented product packaging that made up the installation, alongside the drawings, spray work and painted panels the three artists produced around it. The project originated at Deitch Projects in New York and was remade in different configurations for later venues including the Venice Biennale, so the book reads less as a catalogue of objects than as a portrait of a temporary, collapsible street.

McGee (b. 1966, San Francisco) came out of Bay Area graffiti writing as Twist and trained at the San Francisco Art Institute, becoming a central figure of the Mission School; Powers wrote as ESPO before turning to hand-painted sign work; James wrote as REAS and works between comics, graffiti and painting.