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CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/22/2015

Surf's Up

Joni Sternbach: Surf Site Tin TypeJoni Sternbach: Surf Site Tin Type
Surfing San Onofre to Point Dume: Photographs by Don JamesSurfing San Onofre to Point Dume: Photographs by Don James
John Severson's SURFJohn Severson's SURF
Dora Lives: The Authorized Story Of Miki DoraDora Lives: The Authorized Story Of Miki Dora
Surfing Photographs from the Eighties Taken by Jeff DivineSurfing Photographs from the Eighties Taken by Jeff Divine
Thomas Campbell: Seeing Fatima's EyesThomas Campbell: Seeing Fatima's Eyes
Surfing Photographs from the Seventies Taken by Jeff DivineSurfing Photographs from the Seventies Taken by Jeff Divine
Ben Watts: Montauk DreamingBen Watts: Montauk Dreaming
Thomas Campbell: Slide Your Brains OutThomas Campbell: Slide Your Brains Out

Joni Sternbach: Surf Site Tin TypeJoni Sternbach: Surf Site Tin Type

Published by Damiani.
Text by Lyle Rexer, April M. Watson, Chris Malloy, Johnny Abegg.

Surf Site Tin Type is an homage to a sport, a way of life, and a tribute to the people who practice it. Over the past decade Brooklyn-based photographer Joni Sternbach has traveled around the world, creating tintype portraits of contemporary surfers using the nineteenth-century wet-plate collodion process. Stunning in their detail, these one-of-a-kind images evoke the romance and adventure of surfing, and the bold individualism of the men and women who live to ride the waves. Working with a large-format camera and using hand-poured plates that are prepared and developed on location, Sternbach has profiled a fascinating range of surfers, both well known and unknown, on prized surfing beaches. Locations include Montauk and Malibu in the United States, Byron Bay in Australia and Cornwall in England. Typical surfing photographs are action shots, riding the mighty wave and in vivid color, whereas Sternbach turns to a historic technique to capture something essential and even primordial in the portraits and settings, recalling a tradition of nineteenth-century anthropological photography. Surf Site Tin Type features texts by noted photo critic and historian Lyle Rexer, curator April M. Watson, and Chris Malloy and Johnny Abegg, both well-known surfers and filmmakers.

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Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12 x 9.75 in. / 192 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 61   

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Surfing San Onofre to Point Dume: Photographs by Don JamesSurfing San Onofre to Point Dume: Photographs by Don James

1936-1942

Published by T. Adler Books.

Back in print and available from D.A.P. for the first time, this beloved best-seller tells the story of the heady and innocent years of Santa Monica's nascent surf scene just prior to America's entry into World War II. Beautifully designed, this intimate, album-sized collection of photographs, printed in rich duotones and evocative color, captures the optimism and experimentation, the styles, the flirtatiousness and the freedoms taken--all from an insider's point of view. They were made by the young Don James, a teenager who documented the scene with his father's old Kodak folding camera when he wasn't up on a longboard himself. Out in the surf, down on the sand, aboard somebody's boat, dancing around a campfire, back-flipping off the lifeguard stand, collecting lobster, drinking at the bar and generally wearing as little as possible, here are the regulars of the southern California beach scene, un-self-conscious and perpetually glamorous, alongside loving portraits of the beach and the ocean themselves.

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T. Adler Books

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Catalog: SPRING 2008 p. 21   

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John Severson's SURFJohn Severson's SURF

Published by Damiani/PUKA PUKA.
Foreword by Gerry Lopez. Interview by Nathan Howe. Afterword by Drew Kampion.

John Severson (born 1933) revolutionized pop culture's vision of surfing and surf culture through his prolific artistic output that transverses decades and disciplines. He began his career as a painter, selling his canvases at Long Beach State College. These first works consisted of oil paintings, photographs, drawings and prints relating to Hawaiian and Californian surf culture. In 1958, Severson expanded his repertoire and created a series of popular surf movies, such as Surf Safari, Surf Fever, Big Wednesday and Pacific Vibrations. While his were among the first surf movies, it was the posters associated with them, hugely popular when issued in the 1950s and 1960s, that remain collector favorites today. Showcased in these early posters, his graphic skills translated easily to Surfer magazine, which he founded in 1960. The magazine was the first to celebrate and revolutionize the art and sport of surfing, establishing it as a powerful pop culture phenomenon. The first issue was a 36-page collection of black-and-white photos, cartoon sketches and short articles--every aspect of which was created by Severson himself. His photographs appeared in Life, Sports Illustrated, Paris Match and other print venues. John Severson's SURF explores Severson's surf odyssey through painting, photography, film and publishing. Featuring an interview with the artist by Nathan Howe, artist and curator at Puka Puka, Hawaii, foreword by Gerry Lopez, surfer and co-founder of Lightning Bolt surfboards and afterword by Drew Kampion, author and former editor of Surfer, John Severson's SURF documents the birth of surf culture and serves as a testament to our ocean.

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Damiani/PUKA PUKA

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 212 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 49   

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Dora Lives: The Authorized Story Of Miki DoraDora Lives: The Authorized Story Of Miki Dora

Published by D.A.P./T. Adler Books.
Edited by C.R. Stecyk and Drew Kampion. Foreword by Steve Pezman.

The definitive record of the surfing iconoclast who became an icon

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D.A.P./T. Adler Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10 x 7 in. / 142 pgs / 60 color / 30 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2005 p. 25   

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Surfing Photographs from the Eighties Taken by Jeff DivineSurfing Photographs from the Eighties Taken by Jeff Divine

Published by T. Adler Books.
Introduction by Scott Hulet. Foreword by Jamie Brisick.

Loud, vivid and drenched in fluorescence and neon: the 1980s surf scene, as recorded by Jeff Divine

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T. Adler Books

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Hardcover, 12.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: SPRING 2011 p. 178   

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Thomas Campbell: Seeing Fatima's EyesThomas Campbell: Seeing Fatima's Eyes

Surf, Life, Stuff, Morocco, North Africa

Published by Um Yeah Arts.
Foreword by Scott Hulet. Text by Thomas Campbell.

Seeing Fatima's Eyes is a new photographic essay by the self-taught painter, sculptor, photographer and filmmaker Thomas Campbell (born 1969), on surfing and life in Morocco. In the early 1990s, just prior to his immersion in the scene around New York's Alleged Gallery, Campbell would regularly hole up in the North African enclave to produce paintings for solo exhibitions in Paris, New York and Rabat, all the while scouring the coast during the winter months for whatever waves might roll in from the Atlantic. Later, over the last ten years, Campbell brought various surfers of note (such as Dan Malloy, Alex Knost, Craig Anderson, Dave Rastovich and Ryan Burch) to join him there, and to savor Morocco's glorious climate and stupendous surf. This book, the second in Campbell's Slide surfing series (following 2012's Slide Your Brains Out), records these collective Moroccan adventures from the past 20 years, in color and black-and-white images that range from the everyday to the sublime.

PUBLISHER
Um Yeah Arts

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Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 144 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 50   

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Surfing Photographs from the Seventies Taken by Jeff DivineSurfing Photographs from the Seventies Taken by Jeff Divine

Published by T. Adler Books.
Introduction by Scott Hulet.

As a teenager taking pictures of fellow surfers in 1960s La Jolla, Jeff Divine got to know the original alternative sport before the X-Games were even a gleam in a producer's eye. Through this rare collection of photographs from the momentous decade that followed, he conveys the feeling of being on the beach in its most creative era, being present at the inception of a subculture too large and photogenic to stay down long. The style, the athleticism and the escapism in these images will be familiar to those with even a lazy eye on pop culture: surfing is on the rise again. Of its first time around, Divine says, "Yes, I had long hair. And Pendletons, Mexican wedding shirts, bell bottoms, Wallabies, Zig Zags and tuna, wheat bread, and sprouts in the fridge. Santana, The Dead, Jesse Colin Young, Steppenwolf, Moby Grape, The Stones, Beatles and Clifton Chenier on the stereo. Hippie seamstresses made us custom shirts with embroidered necks and coconut buttons. I had a beaded curtain through which you entered my den. No, I didn't have any black light posters, but I did have the Juan O. Gorman poster "Flores Imaginarias" and Ortner at 3M's on the wall. Reading material? The Life Photography Series, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, M.C. Escher art books, Zap comics, or the Carlos Castaneda series. But our prize possessions were our garage-made surfboards all lined up in the side yard. They mattered the most."

PUBLISHER
T. Adler Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12.5 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 94 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2006 p. 84   

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Ben Watts: Montauk DreamingBen Watts: Montauk Dreaming

Published by Damiani.

"An homage to [Montauk], filled with colourful, high-contrast snaps of surf, sand and sun.” –Sunshine Flint, Conde Nast Traveler

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 144 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 61   

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ISBN 9788862083881 TRADE
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Thomas Campbell: Slide Your Brains OutThomas Campbell: Slide Your Brains Out

Surfing in General 1997-2012

Published by Um Yeah Arts.
Foreword 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.

PUBLISHER
Um Yeah Arts

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 176 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: FALL 2012 p. 12   

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