Wires Crossed book by Ed Templeton

Wires Crossed book by Ed Templeton

• The visual diary of an iconic cult hero—professional skateboarder turned photographer - Ed Templeton
• Exclusive interviews; essential reading for anyone interested in street art, skateboarding, and visual culture
• A high-energy portrait of the skateboarding community during the 1990s and early 2000sPart 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  This work, much of it previously unpublished and unseen, explores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 crisscrossing the world on tour, reveling
  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
• 8 5/8 x 11 in. (21.9 x 27.9 cm)
• 264 pages
• 400 four-color and duotone images
• Hardcover
• Design by Ed Templeton
• ISBN 978-1-59711-536-0