{"product_id":"ed-templeton-wires-crossed","title":"Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart memoir, part document of the DIY, punk-infused subculture of skateboarding as it came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s, Ed Templeton's \u003ci\u003eWires Crossed\u003c\/i\u003e pulses with the raw, combustive energy of Templeton's image-making from the last twenty-plus years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by photographs, collages, texts, maps, and other ephemera from Templeton's journals, \u003ci\u003eWires Crossed\u003c\/i\u003e offers an insider's look at a subculture in the making and reflects the unique aesthetic stamp that sprang from the skate world he helped create. Templeton occupies the rare position of having been a professional skateboarder, a two-time World Skateboarding champion, as well as a photographer and artist working within the skateboard community as it gained increasing cultural currency in the 1990s and beyond. His work first gained recognition as part of the Beautiful Losers collective loosely gathered around Aaron Rose's Alleged Gallery on Manhattan's Lower East Side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis work, much of it previously unpublished and unseen, explores Templeton's own journey as an image maker, as well as the lives of professional skateboarders as they spent long hours crisscrossing the world on tour, reveling in their newfound status as rock star-like figures and the eternal search for new terrain to skate. Interviews between Templeton and fellow pro-skaters and friends add compelling detail about the pressures and pleasures of life on the road, and what it's like to obsessively pursue an art form--whether on their decks or behind the camera.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ed Templeton, Brian Anderson (Interviewee), Erik Ellington (Interviewee)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/23\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aperture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781597115360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.30h x 8.90w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTempleton, Ed:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eEd Templeton\u003c\/b\u003e (born in Los Angeles, 1972) is a star skateboarder, entrepreneur, painter, and street photographer. He has published over twenty books of his photographs, not including the volumes of zines he has self-produced over the years. His work has been exhibited worldwide, including at Alleged Gallery, New York; Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles; Modern Art, London; and Aki-X Gallery, Tokyo, and in solo museum exhibitions at Museum Het Domein, Netherlands, and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. He is considered part of the Beautiful Losers, a group of artists who, in the 1990s, defined the high-brow\/low-brow mix of graffiti, skate culture, and art.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnderson, Brian:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eBrian Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e is a Queens-based professional skateboarder. Anderson was named \u003ci\u003eThrasher\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's \"Skater of the Year\" in 1999, the same year he won the World Cup of Skateboarding title. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEllington, Erik:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eErik Ellington\u003c\/b\u003e is a professional skateboarder, designer, and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles. He is the founder of Human Recreational Services, a luxury footwear company.\u003cbr\u003eEt al...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130874073162,"sku":"9781597115360","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0011\/8990\/4435\/files\/ed-templeton-wires-crossed-9781597115360.jpg?v=1749032969","url":"https:\/\/trnk-nyc.mom\/products\/ed-templeton-wires-crossed","provider":"TRNK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}