| | TITLE | Thomas Campbell: Slide Your Brains Out | IMPRINT | UM YEAH PRESS | PRICE US | $39.95 CDN $39.95 | ISBN | 9780985361105 TRADE | FORMAT | Hbk, 6.75 x 9.75 in., 176 pgs, illustrated throughout. | CATALOG | FALL 2012 p. 12 | DISTRIBUTOR | D.A.P. | PUB DATE | 10/31/2012 | STATUS | Active | STOCK | In stock |
| "Bang! The knock on my front door reverberates through my house like a car backfiring, unannounced and unexpected, shocking me from my computer screen into action. All I could think about was how much time I would waste walking downstairs to answer the door, looking through the peephole to see two teenagers with bibles, then quietly turning around and lurching back up the steps back to whatever I was already wasting my time on. I positioned my eyeball to the little pipe with the fisheye lens and the first thing my eye locked on was the white van parked in front of my house, the sun reflecting brightly off it. Then my eye adjusts to the shade and in the dusty, vignetted edge of my porch stood a familiar person. The door cracks open and the words 'Let’s go, you’re going surfing, the waves are perfect for you,' emanate from the face of Thomas Campbell." - Excerpted from Ed Templeton's Afterword, reproduced from Thomas Campbell: Slide Your Brains Out. |
| | | UM YEAH PRESSThomas Campbell: Slide Your Brains OutSurfing in General 1997-2012Foreword by Scott Hulet. Afterword by Ed Templeton. | Growing up in southern California, artist, photographer and filmmaker Thomas Campbell was raised on the DIY aesthetic of the early 1980s skateboarding culture. Photography tips came from like-minded fellow photographers employed in the skateboarding press rather than from school, and art history was a matter of osmosis, not academia. In the mid-1990s, Campbell moved to New York and immersed himself in the scene around Alleged Gallery, where he quickly befriended and exhibited among the generation of artists who would star in the landmark 2004 exhibition Beautiful Losers. Campbell began documenting surfing culture in the late 1990s through both photography and film. His first feature-length film, The Seedling, came out in 1999, followed by Sprout in 2004 and The Present in 2009. Campbell’s surfing photography has long been admired among by fellow surfers for its lack of gloss finish; unlike most, he eschews the familiar fish-eye shots or tightly cropped land angles. The first of ten projected volumes in Um Yeah Press’ surf photobook series, Slide Your Brains Out compiles work from the past 15 years. Often lo-fi and gritty, other times lush and saturated, Campbell’s compositions--which include portraits and action shots of some of the best surfers in the world--are always surprising and full of emotion, from melancholy to exultation.
Thomas Campbell (born 1969) is a self-taught painter, sculpture, photographer and filmmaker. He divides his time between his painting/sculpture studio in Bonny Doon, California, and traversing the globe making films. Campbell has had solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, Tokyo, Denmark, the Netherlands, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Morocco; he is also creative director for the independent record label Galaxia, which has released records by Tommy Guerrero, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Peggy Honeywell and the Black Heart Procession.Featured images are reproduced from Thomas Campbell: Slide Your Brains Out. | Cory Reynolds | Date: 5/15/2013 This Friday, May 17 from 7-10 pm, artist/photographer Thomas Campbell and former-pro-turned-surf-ambassador Dan Malloy will present a slideshow and booksigning for Campbell's glorious photography book, Slide Your Brains Out, at the Patagonia Cardiff Surf Shop (founded by Malloy and his equally legendary brothers, Keith and Dan, in 2006) with music by The Mattson 2. Featured image is "Joel Tudor color quiver," Del Mar, California, 2003. continue to blog
Cory Reynolds | Date: 12/7/2012 Slide Your Brains Out! Featured image is reproduced from Thomas Campbell’s new collection of surfing photographs from Um Yeah Press. His caption reads, “Mr. Mustachio would go: Michel Junod gets into a windy hog somewhere on an island in the Mid Atlantic. I don't really like those stickers or T-shirts that say ‘Old Dudes Rule,’ or whatever, but this ain't too shabby for a 60-year-old dude laying it down on a single-fin. West Africa, 2008.” Slide Your Brains Out is one of our top holiday gift books, as well as a best-seller at our stores at Art Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami this week. continue to blog
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