Skateboard Culture

The coffee-table book "Skateboard Culture" is an ode to skateboard culture from the 1970s to the present, featuring interviews with legendary skaters such as Tony Hawk and Mark Gonzales, a foreword by director Spike Jonze and more than 400 rare photos and images.

Since the 1970s, skateboarding has grown from the fringes of the California underground into a global phenomenon and a culture in its own right. Over each decade, the creativity of skateboarding, both on and off the board, has influenced mainstream fashion, photography, music, art and film.

In this beautifully crafted ode to skateboarding, Morgan Bouvant and Sébastien Carayol trace the rich history of skateboarding culture through seventeen exclusive interviews with legendary skaters, numerous engaging essays on key events, crucial local scenes and meaningful anecdotes from skateboarding history, nostalgic explorations of brands, films and fashion and more than 400 photographs by iconic skateboard photographers, carefully curated advertisements from legendary brands, and detailed diagrams showing skateboard anatomy and different types of tricks.

Specifications
Title: Skateboard Culture
Author: Morgan Bouvant, Sébastien Carayol
Publisher: TASCHEN
Size: 288 x 205 x 55 mm
Size: 512 pages
Weight: 2534 grams
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780593839492

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