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MASTERS OF SURF PHOTOGRAPHY : ART BREWER
OUT OF PRINT
“Art Brewer is the dean of active American surf photographers whose skill in lighting and studio strategies combines with his unique ability to capture precise moments of surfing brilliance. Art’s body of work includes era defining action classics, psyche probing portraits and surf cultural tableaus dating from 1967 through 2001. Introductory essays by Steve Barilotti, Craig Stecyk and Drew Kampion speak both to the genre and the remarkable individual.” —Surfer’s Journal
Limited Editions are personally signed and numbered by the photographer and come in a black canvas slip cover, with dust jacket. Limited printings range between 250-500 copies. Limited Editions are not reprinted.
Standard Editions come boxed, with dust jacket.
BUNKER SPRECKELS
SURFING’S DIVINE PRINCE OF DECADENCE
OUT OF PRINT
The tale of Bunker Spreckels (1949–1977) reads like a pitch for a movie to rival Boogie Nights: the stepson of Clark Gable is a privileged Los Angeles party boy who is heir to a multi-million- dollar fortune. Passionate about surfing, martial arts, guns, and women, he lives the life of a debauched international jet-setter before succumbing to his excesses at the tender age of 27.
Thirty years later, photographer Art Brewer and writer/photojournalist C. R. Stecyk III have come together to make this book, which traces the meteoric rise and dramatic fall of Bunker Spreckels. Widely considered one of the world’s most gifted surfing photographers, Brewer was a close friend of Spreckels and his personal photographer throughout the last decade of his life, traveling with him from Hawaii to Los Angeles to South Africa. His images of Spreckels both on the waves and on land chronicle Spreckels’s metamorphosis from hippie surfer to international playboy, while Stecyk’s extensive taped interview with Spreckels, completed just three months before his death, provides a rare first-person perspective on all of the decadent craziness that was his life.
The Visual Ride of Anthony Bernard Spreckels III
Through the Lens of Art Brewer.
1969-1977 Volume I
A visual scrapbook of photographer Art Brewers time spent with Bunker Spreckels. From the years 1969-1977 they traveled around the world and left an impression everywhere they went.
BUNKER Vol I
The Visual Ride of Anthony Bernard Spreckels III
Through the Lens of Art Brewer.
1969-1977 Volume II
A second visual scrapbook of photographer Art Brewer's time spent with Bunker Spreckels. From the years 1969-1977 they traveled around the world and left an impression everywhere they went.
BUNKER Vol II
The first in a series of books of Art Brewer's personal and professional archive collection.
ARCHIVE SERIES 1
That’s what this is, nothing complicated, there are no tricks, no photoshop. It’s about as pure as it gets when it comes to photography. These images were all taken with point and shoot cameras which I take with me every place I go. There is no profound statement being made, so I hope you enjoy them and their “Simple Vision". –Art
SIMPLE VISION
A collection of Huntington Beach CA Beach Locals, shot on location by Art Brewer.