About the American photographer, Ed TEMPLETON (b.1972, in Orange County, CA)
Ed TEMPLETON is a professional skateboarder. Outside, he is a painter, graphic designer, and photographer. He revealed his art from diverse artists, who painted on photographs like Peter Beard, Robert FRANK, Jim GOLDBERG, David HOCKNEY - a lot of people that use photography in kind of non-traditional ways. The Photography Colleges website, in an article entitled 'New School Photography: Ed Templeton', identifies him as 'probably the most influential contemporary photographer'.
Photo books by and with contribution by Ed TEMPLETON (a pre-selection)
'Teenage Smokers' (1999); 'Teenage Kissers' (1999); 'Golden Age of Neglect' (2002); 'Deformer' (2008); 'Cemetery of Reason' (2010); 'Drinking the Kool-Aid' (2010); 'Wayward Cognitions' (2014); 'Wires crossed`(2014, part of the PBM Box); 'Adventures in the Nearby Far Away' (2015); 'Memories of the salt charged whiffs...' (2016); 'Contemporary Suburbium' (2017); 'Hairdos of Defiance' (2018); 'Loose Shingles' (B-Sides Box Set, 2018); 'City Confessions #1, Tokyo' (2018); 'Tangentially Parenthetical' (2018); 'Auto-Hypnosis' (2020); 'City Confessions #2, London' (2021)
More books by Ed TEMPLETON
'Situation Comedy' (2001); 'The Prevailing Nothing' (2003); 'Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture' (2004); 'The Contagion of Suggestibility' (2005); 'Empty Plastic Echoes' (2006); 'Nobody Living Can Ever Make Me Turn Back' (2007); 'The Americans' (2007, together with photographs by Richard AVEDON, Lee FRIEDLANDER, Peter HUJAR, Bruce DAVIDSON, Gordon PARKS, Helen LEVITT, Ryan McGINLEY, Robert FRANK, Diane ARBUS, Larry CLARK, Rosalind SOLOMON, Burk UZZLE); 'Coming to Grips' (2009); 'Disorder disorder' (2019; 'The Seconds Pass' (2010); 'Litmus Test' (2010); 'Forays Into Non-Celluloid Instant Gratification' (2011); 'This Land, San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography' (2018)