Leroy Grannis
Mickey Dora,
Malibu, 1965
gelatin silver print
Courtesy of the Photographer
8"x10"
| Grannis photographed surfing with the appreciative eye of a surfer. He was photographed by Doc Ball as an early initiate within the outside lot that practiced the sport during the thirties. His venture into the surfing world as a respected photographer didn't occur until later. His black and white work of the early sixties remain a paradigm of the visual record of the sport. With workman like simplicity, he utilized his understanding of the timing and fluid motion of the sport to capture and monumentalize some of the most key moments in early wave riding. | 
Leroy Grannis |
Leroy Grannis
Hang Ten Clothing Ad, Greg Noll,
Model and Phil Edwards, 1965
gelatin silver print
Courtesy of the Photographer
10"x8"
| His photographs became the basis of the construction and marketing of the surfing industry's elite. His photograph of Dewey Weber is filled with the kind of kinetic momentum that delivers a working class portrait of a man at work into the realm of important social documentary. Even today his sense of the iconography of the dance like motion of the sport remains as an influence on the new wave of surfing's industrial photographers. | 
Leroy Grannis |
Leroy Grannis
Malibu, 1965
gelatin silver print
Courtesy of the Photographer
8"x10"
Leroy Grannis
Girl Walking by the Wall at Malibu,
1966
gelatin silver print
Courtesy of the Photographer
10"x8"
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