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PHOTO ARCHIVES Two of the more significant events in western culture both happened in the 1970s when I was a budding photographer. This was skateboarding followed by punk, both new and uncharted territory for its participants. I photographed them because they were part of my life and for no other reason. I also had no idea how important and influential these two scenes would become one day. Culture or counter-culture, whatever they were, I captured them using a new Canon FTb which I had purchased with money earned from bagging groceries at the supermarket. I shot primarily black and white film and favored Kodak Tri-X. I worked in color too using either Kodachrome or surplus motion picture film stock. In addition to still images I shot motion in the formats of 8mm, Single 8, Super 8, 16mm and video. The video footage, made with a borrowed reel-to-reel video recorder in mid-70s years before the advent of home video, has unfortunately been lost. HISTORIC LIMITED EDITION PRINTS. Read more...
Skateboarding, 1975-1980 Images spanning what is the most important period in skateboarding history, where both riding and equipment were evolving at lightning speed. Photography subjects include three of skateboarding’s most hallowed contributors before they were known outside of Florida: Alan “Ollie” Gelfand, Rodney Mullen and Mike McGill. Gelfand of course, invented the Ollie in the 70s and both Mullen and McGill would go on to chart new territory themselves during the 1980s—McGill with the McTwist and Mullen with a repertoire that would single-handedly revolutionize Freestyle skating and later Street. Skate equipment and memorabilia from this era also make up part of this archive. Many of the images from from Craig B. Snyder's negatives and slides will be appearing for the first time via a series of skate history books that he is producing over the next several years. Punk and New Wave, 1978-1982 Images of the groups, the groupies, the people and the fashion. This archive contains photos of touring US and British bands, onstage and backstage, such as 999, the Ramones, Iggy Pop and U2. Photography also includes documentation of a bantam but significant thriving underground scene in Tampa, Florida where raw and energetic groups like The Strait Jackets played in small, smoke-filled rooms, or a legendary avant-garde ensemble known as The Jetsons upset the status quo of what rock music was supposed to sound like. Craig B. Snyder has planned at least one book on punk and new wave that will embrace many of these never-before-seen images. |
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Film assistant and lunch date, Sweetie, 2006
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