{"product_id":"9783836566797","title":"LeRoy Grannis: Surf Photography","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e Catching the Perfect Wave\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerica’s most important surf photographer of the ’60s and ’70s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a time when surfing is more popular than ever, it’s fitting to look back at the years that brought the sport into the mainstream. Developed by Hawaiian Islanders over five centuries ago, surfing began to peak on the mainland in the 1950s—becoming \u003cb\u003enot just a sport, but a way of life\u003c\/b\u003e, admired and exported across the globe. One of the \u003cb\u003ekey image-makers\u003c\/b\u003e from that period is \u003cb\u003eLeRoy Grannis\u003c\/b\u003e, a surfer since 1931, who began photographing the longboard era of the early 1960s in both California and Hawaii.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis \u003ci\u003eBibliotheca Universalis\u003c\/i\u003e edition brings back Grannis’s hair-raising, sold-out Collector’s Edition, \u003cb\u003ecurated from the photographer’s personal archives\u003c\/b\u003e, to showcase his \u003cb\u003emost vibrant work\u003c\/b\u003e in a compact and affordable format—from the bliss of catching the perfect wave at San Onofre to dramatic wipeouts at Oahu’s famed North Shore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn innovator in the field, Grannis suction-cupped a waterproof box to his board, enabling him to change film in the water and stay \u003cb\u003ecloser to the action than any other photographer of the time\u003c\/b\u003e. He also covered the emerging surf lifestyle, from “surfer stomps” and hoards of fans at surf contests to board-laden woody station wagons along the Pacific Coast Highway. It is in these iconic images that a sport still in its adolescence \u003cb\u003eembodied the free-spirited nature of an era\u003c\/b\u003e —a time before shortboards and celebrity endorsements, when surfing was at its bronzed best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Grannis’s pictures are startling. The scenes they record and breaks they document are pristinely beautiful and impossibly vacant.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e — The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eText in English, French, and German\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taschen America, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48729391694064,"sku":"9783836566797","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783836566797_p0.jpg?v=1769887949","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783836566797","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}