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February 2013
February 2013
Capturing the perfect wave
Tapping into the archives of America’s most important surf photographer
of the ‘60s and ‘70s
Pioneers in photography
as an art form
The complete photos from Stieglitz’s legendary journal (1903–1917)
At a time when surfing is more popular than ever, it’s fitting to look back at the years
that brought the sport into the mainstream. Developed by Hawaiian islanders over
five centuries ago, surfing began to peak on the mainland in the 1950s—becoming not
just a sport, but a way of life, admired and exported across the globe. One of the key
image-makers from that period is LeRoy Grannis, a surfer since 1931, who began photographing
the scene in California and Hawaii in the longboard era of the early 1960s.
This edition showcases Grannis’s most vibrant work—from the bliss of catching the
perfect wave at San Onofre to dramatic wipeouts at Oahu’s famed North Shore. An
innovator in the field, Grannis suction-cupped a waterproof box to his board,
enabling him to change film in the water and stay closer to the action than other photographers
of the time. He also covered the emerging surf lifestyle, from “surfer
stomps” and hoards of fans at surf contests to board-laden woody station wagons
along the Pacific Coast Highway. It is in these iconic images that a sport still in its
adolescence embodied the free-spirited nature of an era—a time before shortboards
and celebrity endorsements, when surfing was at its bronzed best.
“...a time capsule, bringing back an era
that continues to resonate for us in shades
of Technicolor and black-and-white.”
— Los Angeles Times, Book Review
LeRoy Grannis. Surf Photography
of the 1960s and 1970s
Steve Barilotti, Jim Heimann
Hardcover, 8.9 x 11.8 in., 192 pp.
978-3-8365-4547-1
$ 14.99 / CAD 16.99
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Photographer, writer, publisher, and curator Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was a
visionary far ahead of his time. Around the turn of the 20th century, he founded the
Photo-Secession, a progressive movement concerned with advancing the creative
possibilities of photography, and by 1903 began publishing Camera Work, an avantgarde
magazine devoted to voicing the ideas, both in images and words, of the Photo-
Secession. Camera Work was the first photo journal whose focus was visual, rather
than technical, and its illustrations were of the highest quality hand-pulled photogravure
printed on Japanese tissue. This book brings together the the complete collection
of photos from the journal’s 50 issues.
“This has to be the ‘must buy’ book of
the decade—no photographic library will
be complete without it.”
— mono, UK
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Alfred Stieglitz. Camera Work
Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.6 in., 552 pp.
978-3-8365-4407-8
$ 19.99 / CAD 23.99
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