Summertime Staff Picks, 2023

California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties

Published by T. Adler Books.
Text by Yvon Chouinard, Steve Pezman, Steve Roper.

The story told by the photographs in California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties takes place against the larger backdrop of postwar America: Truman and Eisenhower, the Korean War, the Cold War and the Red Scare. Young people were embracing new symbols of non-conformity: Elvis Presley, Jack Kerouac, Marlon Brando and James Dean. All along the California coast, surfing became popular as heavy balsawood boards were replaced with lightweight ones crafted from polyurethane foam, fiberglass and resin. Meanwhile, climbers descended on Tahquitz Rock in the south and Yosemite Valley to the north to test handcrafted equipment that would set new standards for safety, technique and performance. The photographs in this volume include images of legendary surfers such as Joe Quigg, Tom Zahn, Dale Velzy and Renny Yater, in locations such as Rincon, Malibu, South Bay, Laguna and San Onofre; and famous climbers such as Warren Harding, Royal Robbins and Wayne Merry among others, photographed mostly in the Yosemite Valley by the likes of Bob Swift, Alan Steck, Jerry Gallwas and Frank Hoover. Soaked in surf, sun and adrenaline, the photographs in California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties depict the birth of an era and an exhilarating moment in Californian history.

PUBLISHER
T. Adler Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10 x 12 in. / 84 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 12/31/2013
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Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 18   

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ISBN 9781938922268 TRADE
List Price: $45.00 CAD $63.00 GBP £35.00

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Jeff Divine: 70s Surf Photographs

Published by T. Adler Books.
Edited by Tom Adler, Evan Backes. Foreword by William Finnegan.

A colorful, insider portrait of ’70s surf culture, with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning author William Finnegan

PUBLISHER
T. Adler Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12 x 9.5 in. / 148 pgs / 110 color / 22 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/10/2020
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Catalog: SPRING 2020 p. 40   

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ISBN 9781942884606 TRADE
List Price: $39.95 CAD $54.95 GBP £35.00

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Matthew Brookes: Into the Wild

Published by Damiani.
Interview by Zack Raffin.

An exhilarating homage to the surf and van culture of the California coast, from the author of Les Danseurs

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 144 pgs / 120 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 6/28/2022
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Catalog: SPRING 2022 p. 40   

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ISBN 9788862087643 TRADE
List Price: $49.00 CAD $68.00

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The Swimming Pool in Photography

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Francis Hodgson.

A photographic leap into cooling waters

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 10.75 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 6/5/2018
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Catalog: FALL 2018 p. 11   

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ISBN 9783775744096 TRADE
List Price: $55.00 CAD $77.00

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Peter Kayafas: Coney Island Waterdance

Published by Purple Martin Press.
Text by Peter Kayafas.

An elegant collection of portraits of swimmers at Coney Island across two decades

PUBLISHER
Purple Martin Press

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 9 in. / 48 pgs / 30 duotone / 30 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/7/2021
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Catalog: FALL 2021 p. 98   

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ISBN 9780979776847 TRADE
List Price: $25.00 CAD $35.00 GBP £20.00

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Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Andy Sweet's Summer Camp 1977

Published by Letter16 Press.
Edited with foreword by Brett Sokol. Introduction by Naomi Fry.

The golden days of tube socks, bunk beds, marshmallows and first crushes: 1970s summer camp, from the photographer behind Shtetl in the Sun

PUBLISHER
Letter16 Press

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 9 in. / 120 pgs / 109 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/26/2020
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Catalog: SPRING 2020 p. 41   

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ISBN 9780989381192 TRADE
List Price: $39.95 CAD $54.95 GBP £35.00

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Godlis: Miami

Published by Reel Art Press.
Text by David Godlis.

Portraits of a long-lost art-deco world of Jewish retirees, lawn chairs and palm trees

PUBLISHER
Reel Art Press

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 7.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 100 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/9/2021
Out of stock indefinitely

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Catalog: FALL 2021 p. 30   

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ISBN 9781909526846 TRADE
List Price: $39.95 CAD $54.95

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George Byrne: Post Truth

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited by Stephanie Emerson. Text by George Byrne, Ian Volner.

A love letter to Los Angeles through the lens of a pastel postmodernism

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 144 pgs / 68 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 7/19/2022
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Catalog: FALL 2022 p. 64   

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ISBN 9783775752534 TRADE
List Price: $80.00 CAD $112.00

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Cape Cod Modern

Mid-Century Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape

Published by Metropolis Books.
Foreword by Kenneth Frampton. Text by Peter McMahon, Christine Cipriani. Photographs by Raimund Koch.

From the “summer Bauhaus” on, the Cape’ s modern designers enjoyed a lifestyle based on communion with nature, solitary creativity and shared festivity

PUBLISHER
Metropolis Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.75 x 10.25 in. / 272 pgs / 130 color / 200 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 6/30/2014
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Catalog: SPRING 2014 p. 179   

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ISBN 9781935202165 TRADE
List Price: $50.00 CAD $70.00 GBP £40.00

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