Surf Contest

By Ron Church

As the members of the developing surfing world of the early 1960s found themselves striving to surpass one another, and looking to quantify their most accomplished riders, the first surf contests were organized. At 27, as Church strode forcefully into this arena, he had already accomplished a great deal... In his ongoing quest for new material, he brought to surfing a headful of new ideas, camera angles and lighting techniques, ...at the moment that surfing...began to organize itself and enter the mainstream.

Although Church only actively photographed surfing...for a few short years, he was there at the beginning of its transformation into something big, and, as viewers will see, his documentation of its first contests - which were at once mundane and heroic - brought surf photography to another level. All but a few of these images are previously unpublished.

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Product Information:
Year: 2006
Images: 227 bw
128 pages
Hardcover

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