Title

Silver. Skate. Seventies.

  • Author

    Hugh Holland

  • Year

    2019

  • Publisher

    Chronicles Book

In the 1970s, photographer Hugh Holland masterfully captured the burgeoning culture of skateboarding against a sometimes harsh but always sunny Southern California landscape. This never-before-published collection showcases his black-and-white photographs that document young skateboarders sidewalk surfing off Mulholland Drive in concrete drainage ditches and empty swimming pools in a drought-ridden Southern California. From suburban backyard haunts to the asphalt streets that connected them, this was the place that inspired the legendary Dogtown and Z-Boys skateboarders. With their requisite bleached-blond hair, tanned bodies, tube socks and Vans, these young outsiders evoke the sometimes reckless but always exhilarating origins of skateboarding lifestyle and culture.

  • Author

    Hugh Holland

  • Location

    US

  • Publisher

    Chronicles Book

  • Year

    2019

  • Private Collection

    Laird Borrelli-Persson

  • Materials

    Hardcover

  • Color

    Brown, Gray