Ripped: T-Shirts from the Underground, edited by Cesar Padilla and published by P-Vine Books in 2010, unfolds as an intimate and unruly chronicle of underground music culture, gathering more than two hundred vintage T-shirts that bear the marks of sweat, smoke and the restless devotion of their original owners. Each garment becomes a small relic of the post-punk and indie underground, captured in raw, unvarnished photographs that preserve frayed hems, cracked ink and the improvised violence of safety pins and handmade graphics. Moving between nostalgia and documentation, the book lingers in the space where clothing becomes testimony, offering a quiet, tactile history of youth movements defined not by polish but by urgency, autonomy and the fragile beauty of things made by hand and carried through time.

Condition: very good
Japanese
211 pages
21 x 15 cm