The Greatest Skateboarding Photo Ever Taken

Jay Adams, Teardrop, 1976. Glen E. Friedman’s first-ever published photograph, original full-frame color.

It sums up a whole culture, a period of time, puts you (back) in a place you may never have been, but lived through it vicariously, when boys became men and shaped the future of a sport, themselves, and the paths they would walk.

*Read more at Whalebone Mag

Glen E. Friedman, accidental, end of roll, first-ever self-portrait, 16 years old, at Marina del Rey Skatepark arcade, 1978.

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