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Product Identifiers

PublisherPrestel Gmbh & Co KG.

ISBN-103791349430

ISBN-139783791349435

eBay Product ID (ePID)176125711

Product Key Features

Book TitleDiy/Underground Skateparks

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2014

TopicIndividual Photographers / Monographs, Subjects & Themes / Sports, Skateboarding

IllustratorYes

GenreSports & Recreation, Photography

AuthorPaul Seawright

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight20 oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width11 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2014-931051

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal779.979622092

SynopsisA skateboarding book like no other, this collection of stunning colour photographs from around the world reveals an authentic, unsentimental view of an often over-glamorised subculture., A skateboarding book like no other, this collection of stunning color photographs from around the world reveals an authentic, unsentimental view of an often overglamorized subculture. The Irish photographer and skateboarder Richard Gilligan spent four years traveling through Europe and the US to photograph homemade skateparks. The resulting photographs are not your run-of-the-mill action shots filled with miraculous body moves, slashes, twists, and turns. Instead, Gilligan chooses to focus on the sport's "negative space": the out-of-the-way concrete embankments, nondescript suburban lots where kids come to practice, a simple wooden ramp so insubstantial that no one but a skateboarder would recognize its use. Many of these photographs can be appreciated as unique, if prosaic, landscapes, but Gilligan also populates his pictures with skaters at rest, smoking alone, hanging out together, or walking home, board in hand. The images offer a grittily beautiful tribute to the ineffable hunger that unites all skateboarders--young, old, rich, poor. In these photographs Gilligan realizes the act of skating represents more than a quest for glory, but a means of self expression., Irish photographer and skateboarder Richard Gilligan spent four years traveling through Europe and the US to photograph homemade skateparks. The resulting photographs are not your run-of-the-mill action shots filled with miraculous body moves, slashes, twists, and turns. Instead, Gilligan chooses to focus on the sport's "negative space." The out-of-the-way concrete embankments; nondescript suburban lots where kids come to practice; a simple wooden ramp so insubstantial that no one but a skateboarder would recognise its use. Many of these photographs can be appreciated as unique, if prosaic, landscapes, but Gilligan also populates his pictures with skaters at rest, smoking alone, hanging out together, or walking home board in hand. The images offer a grittily beautiful tribute to the ineffable hunger that unites all skateboarders - young, old, rich, poor. In these photographs Gilligan realises the act of skating represents more than a quest for glory, but a means of self-expression.

LC Classification NumberTR655

Text byWeyland, Jocko