LeRoy Grannis, Surf Photography of the 1960s and 1970s - See also

"In LeRoy Grannis: Surf Photography of the 1960s and 1970s, the myth of sun-soaked California is spun out in elegiac Technicolor: A hot-dogging Miki Dora, one of the sport`s great pioneers, catches a tube; a stack of amber-hued boards at Greg Noll`s surf shop in Hermosa glows like honey; the dewy-fresh surf model Marsha Bainer poses next to a longboard twice her height; and the towering green wall of Hawaii`s Pipeline tumbles with apocalyptic fury. Grannis`s motto was ‘Shoot it now or you`ll never get it back.` In this dappled monograph, the period that Grannis documented—California at maximum stokage, surfing evolving from fad to ethos—appears much like a wave itself, as evanescent as it was indelible."
Men's Vogue, New York, United States