Locals Only California Skateboarding 1975-1978 FICCION FANTASIA Para Walter Riso

Para Walter Riso

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Locals Only California Skateboarding 1975-1978 FICCION FANTASIA Para Walter RisoOne afternoon in 1975, a young photographer named Hugh Holland drove up Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Los Angeles and encountered skateboarders carving up the drainage ditches along the side of the canyon. Immediately transfixed by their grace and athleticism, he knew he had found an amazing subject. Although not a skateboarder himself, for the next three years Holland never tired of documenting skateboarders surfing the streets of Los Angeles, parts of