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<i>Bob McTavish, Noosa nose ride<i> 1966 Unframed price - $330 Kodak Endura print So cool...so stylish...so 1960s <i>Wayne Lynch at Margaret River<i> 1969 Unframed price - $330 Kodak Endura print Wayne Lynch's prodigious natural talent began to make its mark on Australian surfing in the mid-60s with a seemingly effortless fluidity. Wayne was always the radical, consistently breaking new ground with his manoeuv <i>Headless McTavish<i> 1966 Unframed price - $235 Archival duotone litho print Bob McTavish at Point Cartwright in Queensland. For a long time during the early 60s, the dominant aesthetic of surfing had been to pose (arching being a bonus) like one of the ancient Hawaiians - having a setting sun i <i>Nat and the girls<i> 1972 Unframed price - $235 Archival duotone litho print The major surfing contests - like Bells and the Australian Championships - were also social events quite unlike any others in surfing. People gathered together who might not see one another again during the entire year. <i>Nat at Honolua<i> 1967 Unframed price - $235 Archival duotone litho print Nat and Bob McTavish took their short, radical and experimental V-bottom boards to Hawaii in the winter of 1967-68. The boards may have spun out at Sunset, but at Honolua Bay on Maui, tracks were taken out of the curl in

Bob McTavish, Noosa nose ride - 1966
Edition of 100 - 50 x 62 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price - $330
Wayne Lynch at Margaret River - 1969
Edition of 100 - 50 x 62 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price - $330
Headless McTavish - 1966
Edition of 150 - 50 x 62 cm
Archival duotone litho print
Unframed price - $235
Nat and the girls - 1972
Edition of 150 - 50 x 62 cm
Archival duotone litho print
Unframed price - $235
Nat at Honolua - 1967
Edition of 150 - 50 x 62 cm
Archival duotone litho print
Unframed price - $235

<i>Bob McTavish at Main Beach, Noosa<i> 1966 Unframed price - $235 Archival duotone litho print Tiny, glassy, late afternoon Main Beach. In the very first years that the Noosa area was surfed, probably no one knew it better, or surfed it better than Bob McTavish. The poise is perfect, the position
<i>Nat at Ti Tree<i> mid-1960s Unframed price - $235 Archival duotone litho print Nat Young described Ti Tree as providing a long-running consistent quality curl that allowed him to further develop his style. In the mid-60s this included a considerable emphasis on nose-riding...and despite the fa
<i>Rodney Sumpter at Wategos<i> 1962 Unframed price - $235 Archival duotone litho print Nat Young says that in the early 60s a good surfer was judged mainly on their bottom turn - Midget had the best... Gopher's was 'king' . Bruce Channon describes this as a wonderful photo of the North Avalon su
<i>Jim Fordham, Narrabeen<i> - John Pennings photograph 1963 Unframed price - $235 Archival duotone litho print In his book The History of Surfing, Nat Young described this as the best day he had seen at Narrabeen. Fed on a diet of American magazines and movies, in the early 1960s, we were stil
<i>Wayne Lynch cutback<i> - John Pennings photograph 1968 Unframed price - $235 Archival duotone litho print Taken during the Australian Championships, this wonderful cutback on a far-from-wonderful wave was used on the original poster for Paul Witzig's pivotal 1960s surfing film <i>Evolution<i>. I

Bob McTavish at Main Beach, Noosa - 1966
Edition of 150 - 50 x 62 cm
Archival duotone litho print
Unframed price - $235
Nat at Ti Tree - mid-1960s
Edition of 150 - 50 x 62 cm
Archival duotone litho print
Unframed price - $235
Rodney Sumpter at Wategos - 1962
Edition of 150 - 50 x 62 cm
Archival duotone litho print
Unframed price - $235
Jim Fordham, Narrabeen - John Pennings photograph - 1963
Edition of 150 - 50 x 62 cm
Archival duotone litho print
Unframed price - $235
Wayne Lynch cutback - John Pennings photograph - 1968
Edition of 150 - 50 x 62 cm
Archival duotone litho print
Unframed price - $235

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