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Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed
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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This work, much of it previously unpublished and unseen, explores Templeton's own journey as an image maker, as well as the lives of professional skateboarders as they spent long hours criss-crossing the world on tour, revelling 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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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781597115360
Publisher: Aperture
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 25 May 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Aperture
Illustration: 400 four-color and duotone images
Contributors:
- Photographs by Ed Templeton
- Interviewee Brian Anderson
- Interviewee Erik Ellington
- Interviewee Justin Regan
- Interviewee Elissa Steamer
- Interviewee Deanna Templeton
- Designed by Ed Templeton
- Designed by Karina Eckmeier
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 31.0mm
Width: 218.0mm
Height: 279.0mm
Weight: 1451g
Pages: 264
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About the Author
Ed Templeton (born in Los Angeles, 1972) is a star skateboarder, entrepreneur, painter, and street photographer. He has published over twenty books of his photographs, not including the volumes of zines he has self-produced over the years. His work has been exhibited worldwide, including at Alleged Gallery, New York; Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles; Modern Art, London; and Aki-X Gallery, Tokyo, and in solo museum exhibitions at Museum Het Domein, Netherlands, and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. He is considered part of the Beautiful Losers, a group of artists who, in the 1990s, defined the high-brow/low-brow mix of graffiti, skate culture, and art. Brian Anderson is a Queens-based professional skateboarder. Anderson was named Thrasher magazine’s “Skater of the Year” in 1999, the same year he won the World Cup of Skateboarding title. Erik Ellington is a professional skateboarder, designer, and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles. He is the founder of Human Recreational Services, a luxury footwear company. Justin Regan is head of global brand and product marketing at Vans Skateboarding. Elissa Steamer, one of the first women to become a professional skateboarder, is a four-time X Games gold medalist. Deanna Templeton is a photographer based in Southern California. She has exhibited widely and published multiple books, including What She Said (2021).
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