"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.