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Surf Photography of the 1960s and 1970s
By LeRoy Grannis, Taschen, £30, 400 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-3-8365-6679-7
IF YOU'VE ever lived on the coast and sat and watched surfers ridingwasn't until the 1950s that the sport began to really take hold as a serious pursuit. In the 1960s, a young photographer and surfer called LeRoy Grannis began to stalk the beaches of Hawaii and California, training his lens on the numerous men and women chasing the bliss of a perfect wave. Grannis was a true pioneer in the field and even went as far as to develop a means to change film in the water. The book is a true time capsule and perfectly captures not just the event of surfing, but also the lifestyle and key figures that surrounded it. Well worth your attention.
