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(WAPLINGTON, NICK). Waplington, Nick. NP (San Francisco): Little Big Man Books, 2011. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Folio. Pictorial Wrappers in a Box. Photography Monograph. As New.. np (42pp), 25 color illustrations + one 11 x 14" original color photograph. "On the last Sunday in August, 1986, photographer Nick Waplington woke up late and turned on the news. An Aeromexico DC9 had collided with a light aircraft just south of Los Angeles, killing all those onboard both planes - plus a number of people unlucky enough to be at home that Labor Day morning. Waplington then drove to Huntington Beach, where he had been planning to watch the OP US Open of Surfing. Upon arrival, all hell was breaking loose. Amidst a crowd of an estimated 10,000 people, hundreds of youths went on a rampage, pelting police officers with rocks and bottles, storming a large lifeguard station and overturning and burning police vehicles. Police said at least twelve people were injured, including five Huntington Beach officers and one Orange County sheriff's deputy. Thirteen people were arrested but scores of youths who threw bottles at officers or took part in the destruction escaped in the confusion. Having only one roll of 24 exposure film, Waplington documented the chaos exploding around him in twenty-five concise frames. The photographs within "Surf Riot" contradict the standard imagery associated with American surf culture from the 1980s. Gone is the laid-back Adonis figure and his flaxen-haired beach babe, and instead, in full lurid color, we see sunburned teens running wild. Unlike other youth revolts, this surf riot bears little in the name of protest - it's merely a spontaneous eruption of violence just for the sport of it". Published by the redoubtable Little Big Man in 2011, "Surf Riot" reproduces each of Waplington's pandemonium-filled color images from that day in a large 16 x 11 ½" tabloid format book. A brand new, pristine example of the Deluxe version of the first edition limited to one hundred copies with an original 11 x 14" color C print from the series BOLDLY SIGNED "Nick Waplington" in black marker on the verso plus a poster laid into the publisher's silkscreened cardboard presentation box with a SIGNED AND NUMBERED adhesive label affixed, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 025436