Sounds of Two Eyes Opening: Southern Cali Punk/Surf/Skate Culture 66-83, Photographs by Spot - Hardcover

Johan Kugelberg

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9781938265105: Sounds of Two Eyes Opening: Southern Cali Punk/Surf/Skate Culture 66-83, Photographs by Spot

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ISBN 10: 1938265106 ISBN 13: 9781938265105

Publisher: Sinecure Books, 2014

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Features a bonus 7" picture disc of Spot's "Too Wise To Crack". Legendary hardcore producer and engineer SPOT (Misfits, Black Flag, H�sker D�, Minutemen etc.) is a master photographer. Sinecure Books are bafflingly proud to be the first to introduce the world to SPOT's photographic narrative. Edited by Johan Kugelberg and Ryan Richardson, Sounds of Two Eyes Opening is a narrative of Southern California chiaroscuro: all the shots of punkers and bands and clubs are dark swatches of blacks and grays with brief illuminations of white skin, bringing about a general claustrophobic cul-de-sac feeling. These images sit in contrast to the wide open event horizon of Spot's beach photographs: beauty, youth and body worship, white teeth, big hair, the eternal triage of sun/sand/sea and the promise of the unbroken horizon. Spanning the late 1960s through the early 1980s, Sounds of Two Eyes Opening offers an amazing portrait of Southern California coastal life: surfing, bikinis, roller skating and skate boarding's fledgling days are set in contrast to iconic shots of all the core denizens of hardcore punk rock as it is being invented; candid shots of Black Flag, The Germs, Minutemen etc. abut everyday punkers, fans, cops, clubs and now shuttered rehearsal spaces. Sounds of Two Eyes Opening is presented as a hardbound, 272 page book, printed on matte art paper, with 4-color black-and-white printing, a lay flat binding, and comes with a silkscreened 7" vinyl record.

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Among the images are recognizable faces and moments. And in the scenes of pure abandonment - of skaters in the middle of a hand plant, or briefly airborne; of smoke and sweat visibly emanating from a crowded show - Spot's pictures feel almost audible, full of noise and freedom, what it must have felt like to have been there.--Rebecca Bengal "The New York Times "

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