PUSH – J. GRANT BRITTAIN – 80’S SKATEBOARD PHOTOGRAPHY

Key Features–

• Hardback
• Photobook celebrating Brittain’s skate photography
• Foreward by Tony Hawk
• 224 pages
• 9″ x 10.75″
• Published by Gingko Press
• ISBN: 9781584237655

Blurb–

‘The dynamic images from the analog era found inPUSHdemonstrate why Grant Brittain has become one of the most widely-recognized skateboard photographers on the planet. Brittain has been at the epicenter of California skateboarding since landing a job at Del Mar Skate Ranch in 1978. Brittain started shooting Kodachrome at Del Mar in 1979, and within a few years he was submitting photographs to TransWorld Skateboarding magazine, going on to become Photo Editor there shortly thereafter. In 1987, The Push, a photo of Tod Swank made the cover of TransWorld, becoming one of the most recognizable photos in all of skateboarding. J Grant Brittain has mentored dozens of budding photographers while achieving the status of icon to skateboarders around the world. Its high time the world gets a chance to see this collection of his work from the 1980s that has inspired so many.PUSHincludes a foreword by Tony Hawk, an introduction by Miki Vuckovich and a fold-out timeline by Garry Scott Davis.’