I went to York for the day yesterday and decided to check out the new Urban Outfitters store that's just opened. They all seem to have a really cool edgy design aesthetic, this photo is of a window display that I just loved.
The books on sale are always great coffee table books and a photo book by Hugh Holland titled 'Locals Only: California Skateboarding 1975-1978' really stood out since I'm a huge fan of that era and lost count how many times I've seen the film Lords of Dogtown. Despite being published in 2010 I hadn't seen it in Urban Outfitters and with a cheaper price of £13.95 (as compared to £29.95 in bookshops) I don't expect to see it much longer. Some photos I'd seen before like the 'dogbowl' shots of empty swimming pools since that's what the guys are known for, but a lot was being looked at first time and they're really cool action shots chronicling these kids' skateboarding lives. The photographs were all taken by Hugh Holland who followed the guys around for 3 years; himself not a skateboarder. The series show beautiful documentary photography and studying photojournalism at uni I can really appreciate each stunning photograph. I just love the cameras of that time and the angles Holland used & the outcome is colour is phenomenal. Looking through the book I can tell that living in 1970s Southern California would have been truly Sweet!
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