Read and Destroy: Skateboarding through a British Lens '78 to '95 Book
Brand: Read and Destroy
£45.00
Hotly anticipated, RAD magazine hit the ground rolling in May 1987. On the thirtieth anniversary of the magazines inception the Read and Destroy Archive launched a project to catalogue and re-release highlights and never before seen material from this vital record of skateboarding in Britain. Thousands of photographic negatives and transparencies, prints, original artwork, ‘zines, flyers, and magazines make up this significant archive.
July 2024 sees the publication of the READ AND DESTROY 272 page hardback book, covering the vibrant life and times of RAD magazine and it’s original creators.
The book and archive features the comprehensive work of editor, photographer and RAD instigator Tim Leighton-Boyce, along with fellow photographers Vernon Adams (AKA Jay Podesta), ‘Mad’ Mike John, Paul Sunman, Wig Worland and many others. Together these photographers captured the UK underground scene in all it’s exciting, messy and overlooked glory. In documenting this fast moving culture, they created defining images of British skateboarding from the 1970s, ’80s and into the early 1990s.
Pre internet, pre digital and before mainstream culture discovered skateboarding as a marketing tool for ’cool’, RAD magazine was the UK's beating heart of skateboarding counter culture.
