Silver Skate 70s - California Skateboarding 1975-1978

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

• Authors: Hugh Holland
• Assisted by: Hugh Holland (Photographer), Hugh Holland (Photographs), Holland Hugh (Photographer)
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781452182056
• ISBN: 978-1-4521-8205-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 236 mm x 311 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Chronicle Chroma
• Subjects: Guides > Sport; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Lifestyles, Photographs: collections, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, Rollerblading, skateboarding, etc