Skaters : tintype portraits of west coast skaters /
The portraits in Skaters compel the subject, the photographer and the viewer to slow down. These images, created with the wet plate collodion process, offer an honest glimpse into the skateboarders' core being: pensive, tough, playful, anxious, distracted, and innocent. Even the plates of seemi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Chapel Hill, North Carolina] :
Daylight Community Arts Foundation,
[2017]
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| Summary: | The portraits in Skaters compel the subject, the photographer and the viewer to slow down. These images, created with the wet plate collodion process, offer an honest glimpse into the skateboarders' core being: pensive, tough, playful, anxious, distracted, and innocent. Even the plates of seemingly empty skate parks are in fact teeming with immense energy and motion, yet the skaters are moving too quickly to be captured with long exposures. |
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| Item Description: | Foreward by Bret Anthony Johnston; essays by Joel Rice and Jenny Sampson. |
| Physical Description: | 95 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1942084412 9781942084419 |