Book
Ron Church CA/HI 60 to 65
$70.00
Having passed away prematurely at age 39 in 1973, just what led Ron Church to become momentarily fascinated with wave riding in 1960 is left to conjecture....Surfing was going through a quickening, and in hindsight, sad metamorphous during that same period. It had slumbered through prior decades as an esoteric pastime practiced at a scattering of pristine breaks around which gathered small tribes of eccentrics who, blissfully ignored by the mainstream, conducted their improbable dance with such passion that even the "kooks" and "ho-daddies" could sense the wonder of it. Nothing so innocent and evocative is left unfettered for long. Church turned his camera on surfing as it teetered on the verge of becoming a much-ballyhooed happening of wave jocks, plastic surfboards, and manufactured surf wear, complete with its own media. Worse yet, the realization that the still small surf culture was a commercially exploitable "lifestyle" was lurking just around the corner. He was there to capture its last moments of innocence.
