His photographs have been published in many of the world's leading magazines and exhibited at the Metropolitan  Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. In 2005-06 at the Jan Cunen Museum in the Netherlands, his retrospective attracted a record-breaking 15,000 visitors.

In 1957, Jon Naar won the 1957 Thomas Alva Edison award for writing The Story of America. His Faith of Graffiti (1974) with introduction by Norman Mailer, is an iconic collector's item. Design for a Limited Planet (1976), the first popular book on solar energy, sold over 100,000 copies. In 1990, he co-authored with Alex J. Naar Design for a Limited Planet,winning the American Library Association Best Book of the Year for Young Adults and in 1993 This Land Is Your Land.

Published in 2005, Getting the Picture, celebrating his photography from 1955 to 2005, won Best Design Book of the Year in the Netherlands.

In 2007, Prestel published his The Birth of Graffiti,
now receiving widespread critical praise in Europe
and the United States. Buy the book at your local bookstore, strandbooks.com, here at amazon.comand/or come to a book signing! Autographed copies available from Jon Naar directly by email.