TEMPLETON, ED. Deformer.

(Bologna, Italy, New York, NY): Damiani / Alleged Press, 2008. First edition, deluxe limited edition. Hardcover. 32.2cm by 24.7cm. 166 pages. Cool volume presented as a multimedia scrapbook chronicling more than thirty years of material drawn from the Templeton’s youth and formative years in suburban Orange County, California. Interweaving photographs, paintings, drawings, sketches, letters and personal ephemera, the book offers an intensely intimate and autobiographical narrative that maps Templeton’s trajectory through skate culture, art and personal reflection — a major work from a key figure in contemporary photography and underground culture. A very good copy, some rubbing to bottom edge (as a result of publisher’s slipcase being too tight) in photo-illustred boards. House in publisher’s card slipcase. This one of 200 numbered copies that includes a photographic print numbered signed and dated by Ed Templeton. Print measures 28.9cm by 20.2cm. Print in fine condition housed in thin card folder.