Silver. Skate. Seventies.: (Photography Books, Seventies Coffee Table Book, 70's Skateboarding Books, Black and White Lifestyle Photography)

by Hugh Holland (Photographer)

Overview

In the 1970s, photographer Hugh Holland masterfully captured the burgeoning culture of skateboarding against a sometimes harsh but always sunny Southern California landscape. This never-before-published collection showcases his black-and-white photographs that document young skateboarders sidewalk surfing off Mulholland Drive in concrete drainage ditches and empty swimming pools in a drought-ridden Southern California. From suburban backyard haunts to the asphalt streets that connected them, this was the place that inspired the legendary Dogtown and Z-Boys skateboarders. With their requisite bleached-blond hair, tanned bodies, tube socks and Vans, these young outsiders evoke the sometimes reckless but always exhilarating origins of skateboarding lifestyle and culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452182056
Publisher:	Chronicle Books
Publication date:	10/22/2019
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	633,893
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 12.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Hugh Holland is a Los Angeles–based photographer and author of Locals Only. He is represented by M+B gallery in Los Angeles.

Editorial Reviews

The gorgeous black-and-white photos collected in Hugh Holland’s Silver. Skate. Seventies. capture the long summer evening of skateboarding’s adolescence, a momentary sense of freedom from gravity, just before it rocketed into the cultural stratosphere.” —Los Angeles Magazine

“The gorgeous black-and-white photos collected in Hugh Holland’s Silver. Skate. Seventies. capture the long summer evening of skateboarding’s adolescence, a momentary sense of freedom from gravity, just before it rocketed into the cultural stratosphere.” —Los Angeles Magazine

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