Tom Blake: Surfing 1922-1932

by Tom Blake and Gary Lynch

Thomas Blake -- born in rural Wisconsin in 1902 -- was the most important and essential figure in the history of modern surfing, as a designer, a surfer, a water stuntman in films, and as a person and persons. In 1922 Blake bought a small travel camera and began what would become an ongoing photographic essay on his life and the surfing world which defined it. Torn Blake Surfing 1922-1932 beautifully reproduces this photographic series, documenting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890481041
• ISBN13: 9781890481049
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: T. Adler Books
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 3.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.5" x 12.8"