Surfing Photographs from the Seventies Taken by Jeff Divine

Simply Divine Whamo After my old friend Ron Stoner vanished into the mystic, Jeff Divine became my favorite surf photographer in the 70's. His shots were clean- and-green or sharply contrasted black-and-white. One of the reasons the islands became so popular in the 70's was Divine's photos in SURFER. Everybody saw them, got stoked, and jumped on a 707. Whenever I reminisce about the old days of soul arches, single fins, and big bottom turns I pick this book off the shel. Robin P. said Never tiring. I never tire of looking at surfing photography. In each and every wave, I imagine me riding it and it stimulates me, gets the juices flowing and drives me to get out there. This book does that.. One fine looking book!! Michael Wollman This book is a timeless classic on a timeless age.Wow the seventies were great. Wish I could have experienced them.This book will take you in a wonderful time warp when surfing was pure.So, much love was put into this book.I am forever stoked on this book.Radical imagery, fantastical surfers purely magical.

But our prize possessions were our garage-made surfboards all lined up in the side yard. The style, the athleticism and the escapism in these images will be familiar to those with even a lazy eye on pop culture: surfing is on the rise again. Of its first time around, Divine says, "Yes, I had long hair. I had a beaded curtain through which you entered my den. Reading material? The Life Photography Series, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, M.C. They mattered the most.". And Pendletons, Mexican wedding shirts, bell bottoms, Wallabies, Zig Zags and tuna, wheat bread, and sprouts in the fridge. No, I didn't have any black light posters, but I did have the Juan O. Santana, The Dead, Jesse Colin Young, Steppenwolf, Moby Grape, The Stones, Beatles and Clifton Chenier on the stereo. Hippie seamstresses made us custom shirts with embroidered necks and coconut buttons. Gorman poster "Flores Imaginarias" and Ortner at 3M's on the wall. Through this rare collection of photographs from the momentous decade that followed, he conveys the feeling of being on the beach in its most creative era, being present at the inception of a subculture too large and photogenic to stay down long. As a teenager taking pictures of fellow surfers in 1960s La Jolla, Jeff Divine got to know the original alternative sport before the X-Games wer