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. Immediately transfixed by their grace and athleticism, he
knew he had found an amazing subject. Although not a skateboarder
himself, for the next three years Holland never tired of
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. During the mid-1970s,
Southern California was experiencing a serious drought, leaving an
abundance of empty swimming pools available for trespassing
skateboarders to practice their tricks. From these suburban
backyard haunts to the asphalt streets that connected them, this
was 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 sometimes harsh but always 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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