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Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed (Hardcover)
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Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed (Hardcover)
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Part memoir, part document of the DIY, punk-infused subculture of
skateboarding as it came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s, Ed
Templeton’s Wires Crossed pulses with the raw, combustive energy
of Templeton’s image-making from the last twenty-plus years.
Illustrated by photographs, collages, texts, maps, and other
ephemera from Templeton’s journals, Wires Crossed offers an
insider’s look at a subculture in the making and reflects the
unique aesthetic stamp that sprang from the skate world he helped
create. Templeton occupies the rare position of having been a
professional skateboarder, a two-time World Skateboarding champion,
as well as a photographer and artist working within the skateboard
community as it gained increasing cultural currency in the 1990s
and beyond. His work first gained recognition as part of the
Beautiful Losers collective loosely gathered around Aaron Rose’s
Alleged Gallery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. This work, much
of it previously unpublished and unseen, explores Templeton’s own
journey as an image maker, as well as the lives of professional
skateboarders as they spent long hours crisscrossing the world on
tour, reveling in their newfound status as rock star–like figures
and the eternal search for new terrain to skate. Interviews between
Templeton and fellow pro-skaters and friends add compelling detail
about the pressures and pleasures of life on the road, and what
it’s like to obsessively pursue an art form—whether on their
decks or behind the camera.
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