Lick

Lick by Ed Templeton. Second edition (2020) of this small Cafe Royal paperback in new condition. No markings. This is a new book. Please see pictures. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.

About Lick

When you think of licking, what springs to mind? I’m talking beyond the sexual. For me it’s got to be El Classico. Winter. I’m five years old, waiting outside a friend’s house when I realise her letterbox has been Jack Frosted. Free slush puppy. Whoopee. I stick my tongue out, lick, and immediately get ice-velcro-ed to the flap. If Ed Templeton had been there, he’d have caught the moment.

Artist Bio

Ed Templeton is an American professional skateboarder, contemporary artist, and photographer. He is the founder of the skateboard company, Toy Machine, a company that he continues to own and manage. He is based in Huntington Beach, California. Templeton was inducted into the Skateboard Hall of Fame in 2016. “Depending on what hat I’m wearing, I’m a skateboarder, an artist, or a businessman,” says Ed Templeton, who produces photographs, paintings, and drawings. He began skateboarding in 1985 and went on to found his own skateboard company and to skate professionally from the early to mid-1990s. In 1994, he picked up a camera to document the skateboarder subculture he was a part of—and began his artistic career. Though he is primarily known for his black-and-white photographs of the people and street life of Huntington Beach, Calif., his work also includes a series of intimate portraits of his wife and an understated suite of paintings focused on suburbia. As the artist explains, all of his subjects come from his own life: “Everything I’ve ever shot has just been on the path that I’ve been on, be it skating or travel or street photography.”

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