Pools, Craig Fineman, 2013

Craig Fineman was a US-based skateboard photographer working in the 1970s and 80s in California. Pools is a book of his photographs documenting teenage skateboarders in Los Angeles in the 1980s skating empty residential backyard pools.

All images, in both portrait and landscape format, are placed in one size, and always rotated to portrait format. The result is that all images are printed large, but sometimes rotated 90 degrees clockwise or counter clockwise — accentuating the feeling of loss of gravity when skating pools.

At 24 × 34 cm/9.4 × 13.4 in, the book is bound in the largest format possible to be folded in signatures of 8 on a standard B1 printing sheet without waste.

The book is typeset in Times Bold in pool shapes. The large but thin volume is printed in duotone black, mostly on a sturdy matte coated stock, hardcover casebound, and includes content printed on golden yellow endpapers.