Description: "Brittain has been at the epicenter of California skateboarding since landing a job at Del Mar Skate Ranch in 1978. [He] 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. ... J. Grant Brittain has mentored dozens of budding photographers while achieving the status of icon to skateboarders around the world. It's high time the world gets a chance to see this collection of his work from the 1980s that has inspired so many"--Supplied by publisher.
Brief description: Grant Brittain picked up a camera at the age of 25 and started shooting his friends at the Del Mar Skate Ranch. The "Ranch" was a skatepark in a small beach town north of San Diego, California that he managed in the early 1980s, and it was there that he honed his photographic skills. In 1983, Grant was asked to contribute skate photos to the premiere issue of TransWorld SKATEboarding magazine and became its founding Photo Editor and Senior Photographer. The photographs selected for PUSH: J. Grant Brittain - 80s Skateboarding Photography were captured during this exciting early period of J. Grant Brittain's photography career.