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Title: Tom Blake: Surfing 1922-1932, Deluxe Edition by Gary Lynch, Tom Blake ISBN: 1-890481-04-1 Publisher: Tom Adler Books Pub. Date: 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $175.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: NOT MUCH FOR THE BUCKS
Comment: THERE ARE SOME RARE PHOTOS WHICH ARE COOL.SOME GOOD TEXT ALSO.JUST NOT ENOUGH FOR MY $.
Rating: 5
Summary: Photos from Paradise...
Comment: These are marvelous pictures of a time that is barely imaginable --Tom Blake looks like god......his photos of he and Duke Kahanamoku and Tom's girlfriend are classics and priceless. Great slices-of-time surfing at Waikiki.....presented in a beautiful hardcover. Soon to be out of print....save in the limited edition - joe t. of surfbooks.com
Rating: 5
Summary: Tom Blake: THE Man for Many Reasons
Comment: Tom Blake Surfing: 1922-1932 presents a selection of Blake's photographs that define a period in surfing, a period of innovation and rediscovery of surfing's ancient Hawaiian roots. Blake's invention, the paddleboard, stands beside the heavier redwood boards of the period and provides a striking contrast in shape and weight. These lighter boards created a controversy when Blake paddled them to easy victories in races. They were clearly a quantum leap for surfboard design. Interestingly enough, the Blake innovation--hollowing surfboards--is still used today with balsa boards. In addition, if you have been to a beach in the summer and noticed the large wood boards atop rescue vehicles, you have seen the Tom Blake design at work to this day. The photographs, laid out in a eye-pleasing format on very fine paper, allow the reader to, as it were, review a unique period of history seen by few until this time and lived by few during that period, since history covering this time period usually focuses on the Roaring Twenties. Here the Roaring Waves provide another view of the Roaring Twenties, a view of life in California and Hawaii at once wholesome and relaxed. If readers look closely at the themes presented here in the photographs, they will discover the breadth of experience Tom Blake had at this time and later. To illustrate, Tom Blake was a stunt man for Hollywood, an inventor, a champion swimmer, a champion paddler, a historian and replicator of ancient Hawaiian surfboards, a phototgrapher...and more. What an impressive list for any man. Gary Lynch and Tom Adler have forever preserved an important bit of surfing history. Their hard work and attention to detail show in the informative Foreward and the explanatory notes at the end of the book. Only Blake's own notations appear on the photographs, allowing viewers to make observations on their own. This book is one of my treasured possessions.
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Title: The Encyclopedia of Surfing by Matt Warshaw ISBN: 0151005796 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 06 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Surf Life 32 to 02 by Sam George, Tom Adler, Craig Stecyk ISBN: 1890481092 Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Stoked! A History of Surf Culture by Drew Kampion ISBN: 1586852132 Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publisher Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Los Alamos: Los Alamos by William Eggleston, Walter Hopes, Thomas Weski ISBN: 3908247691 Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Pipe Dreams : A Surfer's Journey by Kelly Slater ISBN: 0060096292 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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