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DIMENSIONS: All prints are supplied in matts and backed. Dimensions listed below are the overall size of the matt.

IMAGE SIZE: 46.5 x 71.5 cm approximately (there's some variation).

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The romance of travelling the major surf breaks of the east coast of Australia in a beaten-up old Holden was a real one. There were few surfers outside the capital cities as not everyone had a car. Places like Noosa were still 'secret' and they were often empty.
Bob McTavish and the '48 Holden, Noosa – 1966
Edition of 20 – 82 x 102 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1500
 Any good break, anywhere in the world, has its crew and Angourie is no different. They’ll dominate the break when it’s as good as this fine swell in the late 1960s.
Angourie – late 1960s
Edition of 20 – 82 x 102 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
 Very 1960s, very Bob McTavish.
Bopping Bob McTavish – mid-1960s
Edition of 20 – 102 x 82 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
 Bells is (a bit) more hollow than it looks in photographs from the water. The advantage of pictures from this perspective is that they give you a real sense of what it feels like to be out there.
Butch Cooney at Bells – 1969
Edition of 20 – 82 x 102 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
 Before his glamorous days as a Ralph Lauren model and a tow-in surfer of giant waves, Buzzy was a top-10 competitor on the pro tour.
Buzzy Kerbox at Haleiwa, Hawaii 1 – 1976
Edition of 20 – 82 x 102 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
At Angourie in the early 1970s the sandy track down to the point ran straight ahead from the car park, and wound though the banksia trees to the rocks north of the beach. There was an older man called Alex who was some sort of caretaker for the reserve and who also had a small shop that sold the basics like bread and milk...and fresh mullet that he caught himself.
Fresh mullet – c. 1972
Edition of 20 – 82 x 102 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
 George first came to Australia in 1964 and found a ready welcome. His ability to surf close to the curl, and the rapid direction changes that he could make on his kneeboards were in striking contrast to what could be done on the longboards of the day.
George Greenough – 1970
Edition of 20 – 102 x 82 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
 International travelling as a surfer was never aimless. You heard about a break from someone who'd heard about it from someone else (or had even been there) and set off to have a look. Getting to Guethary on the Basque coast wasn't as adventurous as to an island off Sumatra but surfing in France had its own rewards.
Guethary, France – 1976
Edition of 20 – 82 x 102 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
 Bob McTavish at Point Cartwright in Queensland. For a long time during the early 1960s, the dominant aesthetic of surfing had been to pose (arching being a bonus) like one of the ancient Hawaiians - having a setting sun in the background was another plus. Nat Young and McTavish threw this nostalgia aside with an aggressive attack...few other pictures summed up their approach to 'complete involvement' better than this one.
Headless McTavish – 1966
Edition of 20 – 82 x 102 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
 Mark Campbell was a local kid who surfed Spooky as well as many of the imports with far bigger reputations. His concentration wasn't lacking either.
Mark Campbell at Spooky – 1973
Edition of 20 – 82 x 102 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
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