Deanna Templeton (signed) - Scratch My Name on Your Arm - Schunck 2010

For the past years, Deanna Templeton has been photographing skateboard demonstrations, surfing competitions and other beachside congregations of kids in southern California. The photographs in ‘Scratch My Name on Your Arm’ document a sexy trend emerging in Californian youth culture for getting famous surfers and skaters to autograph bare skin and underwear. Where once the autograph of an idol served primarily as a souvenir or keepsake, nowadays autographs on skin or intimate underwear have become the preferred method for drawing the attention of both the autographer and bystanders to one's scantily-clad self. Text by Stijn Huijts.

144p - EN - 35x21cm - hardcover - perfect - SIGNED