The Golden Age of Neglect

by Ed Templeton (Photographer)

There are teenage smokers and drinkers. There are those whose despondence is clearly evident as they confront the camera with vacant eyes. This, quite simply put, is The Golden Age of Neglect a classic example of Ed Templetons work which is deeply anchored in street life and street style, rock, punk, and rap, and the graphic culture of wall paintings, murals, tags, and graffiti A fixture of the Los Angeles skateboarding scene, Ed Templeton has been producing photographs, documenting a real story of his life, international tours, and encounters in the skateboarding world for over 10 years. Fueled by incredible raw energy, irreverence, and spontaneity, his work is comprised of an extraordinary number of photographs and canvases, as well as a body of graphic work from drawings, sketch books and collages to montages and correspondence. This book is the reprint of the original version, which quickly rose to cult status shortly after its first printing in 2003

Genres: Photography

104 pages, Paperback

First published October 10, 2004

Reviews

[holden · Rating 5 out of 5]

thumbing through this one, I thought, “my, this is very much like Larry Clark.” this really has a sense of its subjects, time and place in the same way that Clark (at times bafflingly) seems to capture in his own work. then I reached the interview at the end in which Templeton discusses Clark’s influence on his photography. ha! he even shares a particularly amusing story about how he stole a Larry Clark image for a cover mainly because he thought Larry was dead and wouldn’t mind, only to later run into him in person and find that the man didn’t actually mind his theft when he owned up to it.

very nostalgic. more than a few snapshots that made me feel like I was looking at a person I know.

[Matthew]

I have seen some of these photos and I would very much like to see the whole book.