Title: A Spiritual Good Time
Artist: Stephen Milner
Meteoro Editions, 2020
Design by Otro Bureau
Softcover
250 x 320 mm
80 pages
Text by Jesse Dorisin in English
First edition
ISBN:
The source of the photographs in “A Spiritual Good Time” is from various surfing magazines published before 1990. The appropriated images from mass-printed surf culture is a meditation on the perpetual pursuit of pleasure. It is a blending of fear and desire within a sport that often focused on the heterosexual gaze, hyper-masculinity, localism and the gossamer tipped dream of all inclusiveness and spirituality. Through tight cropping and editing of the editorial tropes of surf photography, the images are re-contextualized into a loose narrative of the contradictory forces at play
- From the publisher’s website
The source of the photographs in “A Spiritual Good Time” is from various surfing magazines published before 1990. The appropriated images from mass-printed surf culture is a meditation on the perpetual pursuit of pleasure. It is a blending of fear and desire within a sport that often focused on the heterosexual gaze, hyper-masculinity, localism and the gossamer tipped dream of all inclusiveness and spirituality. Through tight cropping and editing of the editorial tropes of surf photography, the images are re-contextualized into a loose narrative of the contradictory forces at play
- From the publisher’s website
