Skater Girls

Increasing the visability of under-represented girl skateboarders, these portraits are captured on location with the photographic historical process, wet plate collodion using a portable darkroom and 8x10 view camera.

About the author

Jenny Sampson is a photographer based in Berkeley, CA whose rst book Skaters (Daylight 2017) made waves within the extreme sports community and beyond. Her tintype photographs are in numerous private collections.Becky Beal, PhD, is an associate professor of kinesiology at California State University in Hayward, CA, where she teaches classes in the sociology and phi- losophy of sport. For nearly thirty years she has researched and wri en about the cultural and political dynamics of skateboarding.Cindy Whitehead was one of the rst professional female skateboarders, a Skateboard Hall of Fame Inductee and is now a ‘sports stylist’ for stars around the world. Her rst book IT’S NOT ABOUT PRE Y: A Book About Radical Skater Girls was released in 2017.

Summary

Increasing the visability of under-represented girl skateboarders, these portraits are captured on location with the photographic historical process, wet plate collodion using a portable darkroom and 8x10 view camera.

Foreword

Promotion and Publicity Andrea Smith, Publicist National print and online campaign Social Media campaign Promotion through: www.daylightbooks.org

Product details

• Assisted by: Jenny Sampson (Photographs), Sampson Jenny (Photographs), Beal Becky (Foreword)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781942084853
• ISBN: 978-1-942084-85-3
• No. of pages: 96
• Illustrations: 60 B&W photographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Sports, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Monographs, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sport: general, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Photography: portraits and self-portraiture