Photography Exhibition Hugh Holland: Silver, Skate, Seventies

An exhibition in Los Angeles, with never-before-exhibited archive, including some of his earliest photographs documenting the rise of the California skateboard revolution in the 1970s. It adds a more raw, spontaneous understanding to Holland’s well-known color photographs of the 1970’s skating scene. Though now he is most closely associated with his later work in color, the artist began his photographic documentation of the skateboard revolution shooting in black and white. Holland shot these negatives while experimenting with new ideas and often for his own enjoyment. These early black and white images were in many ways the genesis for his later color works—providing us with a rare glimpse behind the creative curtain.

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