A-frame

Aaberg, Denny

Aaberg, Kemp

Abberton, Koby

Abbruzzi, Sid

Abellira, Reno

Abubo, Megan

academia and surfing

Adler, Tom

advertising and surfing

Aeder, Erik

aerial

Aguerre, Fernando

Aichner, Scott

Aikau, Clyde

Aikau, Eddie

Aipa, Ben

air-drop

airbrush

Airshow

Ala Moana

Alabama

alaia board

Alaska

alcohol and surfing

Alexander, Kala

Alexandre, João (Dapin)

Allen, Chuck

Alms, Paige

aloha shirt

Alter, Hobie

Alvarez, Pepe

Ancell, Kevin

Andaman Islands

Andersen, Lisa

Anderson, Craig

Anderson, Simon

Andino, Kolohe

Angel, Jose

angle

Angola

Angourie

Antarctica

Apocalypse Now

Arabian Sea

Aragon, Janice

Arakawa, Eric

Archbold, Matt

Arena, Eduardo

Ashton, Juan

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP)

Atlantic Ocean

August, Robert

Aurness, Rolf

Auster, Ken

Australia

Avalon, Frankie

Azores

backdoor

backside

backside attack, Pipeline

backwash

bail out

Bain, Rob

Baja California

Baker, Bernie

Baker, Grant “Twiggy”

Baker, Tim

Bali

Ball, John “Doc”

Ballard, Bill

Ballard, Rochelle

balsa

Baltic Sea

Banks, Jim

Barbados

Barilotti, Steve

Barland, Michel

Barreda, Sergio “Gordo”

Barry, Michael

Bartholomew, Wayne

Baxter, Jackie

Bay of Bengal

Beach Boys, The

Beacham, Debbie

beachboys

beachbreak

Beachcomber Bills Grand Prix

Beachley, Layne

beavertail

Becker, Phil

Bedford-Brown, Stuart

Belgium

Bells Beach

Bendall, Ma and Pa

Bennett, Barry

Benson, Becky

Benson, Blanche

Benson, Linda

Bermuda

Designer and publisher of surpassingly elegant photo books on surf culture; based in Santa Barbara, California; best known for his work with blue chip surf photographers such as Don James and Jeff Divine.

Adler was born (1950) and raised in Long Beach, the son of an aerospace engineer father and a stay-at-home mother. He learned to ride waves at age 14 in the mostly closed-out walls of nearby Seal Beach, and by the time he moved north to attend college at UC Santa Barbara (BA, Comparative Lit, '75), he was a dedicated surfer.

Adler was an equally dedicated collector of handcrafted books and photography monographs, an interest that came into play decades later after he befriended Don James, one of surfing's original lensmen. The two were neighbors in Santa Barbara, and bonded while going over James' earliest work (shot with a folding Brownie camera), and talking about how it might best be presented. The result was a small-format, Adler-published black-and-white hardcover book titled 

Surfing San Onofre to Point Dume: 1936-1942: Don James

 (1997). The youth and energy of California's early surf culture comes ringing though, but the design was pristine and balanced; a 

 was "like looking at flashcards from an American Eden." The book was also written up in the 

and gallery shows of James' photos were shown in New York and Los Angeles.

Buoyed by the success of the James book, Adler's boutique publishing house has gone on to produce a small run of equally handsome photographic collections, including 

Dora Lives: The Authorized Story of Miki Dora

Surfing Photographs From the Seventies Taken by Jeff Divine

 (2016). Adler has also done design work for Quiksilver, Patagonia and Polo.

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