surf photography

Photographs of surfers and surfing were taken in Waikiki as far back as the late 19th century, but surf photography as a genre was invented during the depression by Americans Tom Blake and John "Doc" Ball. Blake, the Wisconsin- born surfer/board designer who spent much of his young adult life in Hawaii, built a 10-pound wooden-box housing for his Graflex camera in 1929, rested the two-foot-high ap...