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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, Hüsker Dü, 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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Sounds of Two Eyes Opening - Southern California Life: Skate/Beach/Punk 1969-1982
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Sinecure Books, 2014
ISBN 10: 1938265106
ISBN 13: 9781938265105
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Seller: Reilly Books, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Hardcover; sealed, new. Seller Inventory # ABE-1681062659755
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Sounds of Two Eyes Opening - Southern California Life : Skate/Beach/Punk 1969-1982
Seller: Salish Sea Books, Bellingham, WA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. Very Good Minus; Hardcover; Light wear to the covers; Unblemished textblock edges; Light crease to the middle of about five pages at the beginning of the book, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are bright and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); 2.6 lbs; Cover photo of skakeboarder with title in white lettering; 2014, Sinecure Books; 276 pages; "Sounds of Two Eyes Opening - Southern California Life : Skate/Beach/Punk 1969-1982," by Johan Kugelberg, et al. Seller Inventory # SKU-1276AC04903154
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