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CAPTAIN SONCHO / GRANT HATFIELD / ED TEMPLETON / DEVIN BRIGGS: SURF DISTURBANCE - SIGNED BY ED TEMPLETON
(TEMPLETON, ED). Templeton, Ed, Captain Soncho, Grant Hatfield & Devin Briggs. NP (Los Angeles): Deadbeat Club Press, 2013. First Edition 1/400. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monographs. As New.. np (30pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. The twelfth publication from Los Angeles-based Deadbeat Club Press, "Surf Disturbance" is the spiritual successor to Nick Waplington's charged "Surf Riot" document of the 1986 OP Pro Surfing contest gone awry. As the title indicates, this captures firsthand the unrest and looting that erupted in downtown Huntington Beach following the completion of the Vans 2013 US Open of Surfing. Huntington Beach is Ed's hometown, and here he contributes a text recounting his presence at both events along with his, Grant Hatfield, Devin Briggs, and HB Police Captain Soncho's intense images of the most recent riot and its aftermath. A brand new, pristine example of this exceedingly uncommon publication limited to four hundred unnumbered copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Ed Templeton" in black ink on the first page of his photographs. Inventory Number: 025379