Locals Only: California Skateboarding 1975-1978

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One afternoon in 1975, a young photographer named Hugh Holland drove up Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Los Angeles and encountered skateboarders carving up the drainage ditches along the side of the canyon. Instantly transfixed by their grace and athleticism, he knew he had found an ideal subject. Even if not a skateboarder himself, for the following three years Holland never bored with documenting skateboarders surfing the streets of Los Angeles, parts of the San Fernando Valley, Venice Beach, and as far away as San Francisco and Baja California, Mexico.  Throughout the mid-1970s, Southern California used to be experiencing a serious drought, leaving an abundance of empty swimming pools to be had for trespassing skateboarders to practice their tricks. From these suburban backyard haunts to the asphalt streets that connected them, this used to be the place that created the legendary Dogtown and Z-Boys skateboarders. With their requisite bleached blonde hair, tanned bodies, tube socks and Vans, these young outsiders are masterfully captured against a infrequently harsh but all the time sunny Southern California landscape in LOCALS ONLY. LOCALS ONLY features more than 120 beautiful color images plus a Q+A format interview with the artist.

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