Ed Templeton is an American photographer and painter based in California. Before his artist career, Ed had an international career as one of the first professional skaters.
Ed Templeton photographed the world of skate, his friends & family, and street scenes since his teenage years. His first book "Teenage Smokers" dates from 1999 (Alledged Press). He has since published many acclaimed photobooks, including "The Golden Age of Neglect" (Drago, 2002), "Beautiful Losers" (DAP, 2004), "Deformer" (Anthem / Damiani, 2008), "Litmus Test" (SUper Labo, 2010), "Teenage Kissers" (Seems Books, 2011), "Adventures in the Nearby Faraway" (Editions Bessard, 2015), "Loose Shingles" (B-Sides Box Set, 2018), "Hairdos of Defiance" (Deadbeat Club, 2018).
© L'Ascenseur Végétal when Ed visited our Bookshop / Gallery in Bordeaux (2016)
Presentation by Aperture: " Part memoir, part document of the DIY, punk-infused subculture of skateboarding as it came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s, Ed Templeton's Wires Crossed pulses with the raw, combustive energy of Templeton's image-making from the last twenty-plus years. Illustrated by photographs, collages, texts, maps, and other ephemera...
Hairdos of Defiance (*signed*)
Presentation by Deadbeat Club: " « An explosion of spiked fluorescent pink hair precariously balanced atop a young girl's head, eyes painted black in the shape of an Egyptian goddess, slender neck choked by a black leather dog collar ringed with metal thorns, a ripped-up t-shirt barely concealing the flesh of her breasts: it had the same shocking effect...
Presentation by B-Sides Box Set: "Loose Shingles displays alternate photos and outtakes from Templeton's many projects over the last few decades, including Teenage Smokers, Teenage Kissers, and other editorial and street shots. This « Box Set » also includes a new element, as Ed Templeton has hand drawn the backs of each photograph which provides more...
.Currently unavailable. Presentation by Ed Templeton on the publisher's website: "The subject Teenage Smokers has always fascinated me. When I was young, for a very short period I thought it might be « cool » to smoke. I ripped a piece of paper down to the size of a cigarette and pulled some grass from our front lawn and rolled it into the paper and lit...
Adventures in the Nearby Far Away (*signed*)
.Last copy.Presentation by the artist: "26 miles across the Pacific Ocean from the tangled mess of humanity that is Los Angeles and Orange County sits an island paradise called Santa Catalina where time has stood still and visitors can experience what California was like before the Europeans sailed in. Adventures in the Nearby Far Away is a photographic...