Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed

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Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed is an exploration of the intertwined paths of skateboarding culture and photography. Celebrating vibrant energy and raw moments, it delves into Templeton's unique perspective, capturing the grit and authenticity of everyday life through his camera lens. This book is a visual feast showcasing the seamless blend of street culture and artistic expression.
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You might enjoy this book if you're intrigued by a raw, intimate glimpse into youth culture and skateboarding through powerful photography. The artist's lens captures candid moments of emotion, rebellion, and everyday life, offering a compelling journey into a subculture enriched with personal stories and striking visuals. It's a visual feast for anyone interested in art, photography, and the vibrant world of skateboarding.

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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This work, much of it previously unpublished and unseen, explores Templeton's own journey as an image maker, as well as the lives of professional skateboarders as they spent long hours criss-crossing the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.

Book Details

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).