"Brittain has been at the epicenter of California skateboarding since landing a job at Del Mar Skate Ranch in 1978. [He] started shooting Kodachrome at Del Mar in 1979, and within a few years he was submitting photographs to TransWorld Skateboarding magazine, going on to become photo editor there shortly thereafter. . . . J. Grant Brittain has mentored dozens of budding photographers while achieving the status of icon to skateboarders around the world. It's high time the world gets a chance to see this collection of his work from the 1980s that has inspired so many"--Supplied by publisher.