Tom Blake: Surfing 1922-1932

by 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 persona. 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. "Tom Blake: Surfing 1922-1932" beautifully reproduces this photographic series, documenting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890481084
• ISBN13: 9781890481087
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: T. Adler Books
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.9" x 12.3"