RENNIE ELLIS | Life's a Beach

Let this intoxicating vision of solar-drenched fun transport you to the ecstatic shores of 1970s & 80s Australia. Rennie Ellis' inquisitive lens captures the freedom of eternal summer, the ardent pursuits of bronzed oceanic revelers, and tanned figures gleaming with the salt-tinged beads of the beach.

First edition. Third printing, 1985.

Note : Nude and topless beachgoers grace these pages. 

Cover has scratches, creasing, and corner wear. Pages are in good condition, but have a few imperfections, like a few minimal creases. Good + condition.

“The 'Me Generation' is alive and well and living on our beaches. As Rennie Ellis says, there's something quite primitive and tribal about the way we strip off to as near naked as is lawful and indulge in rituals that have roots in sun worship and baptism.

For many years Rennie Ellis, photographer, writer and enfant terrible of Australian arts, letters and society, has been a beachcomber with a camera.

At the beach, where everyone is exposed and there are no walls to ward off curious eyes, he has recorded many wonderful and amazing scenes - some aglow with sensuality, others alight with good fellowship or family feeling, some tinged with bathos or verging into madness.

The beat of the Australian summer is right there - packed between the sea and the land in the cities and the popular resorts, or stretched out in the lonely places of a 47 000-kilometre coastline." - from the back cover

8.5 x 8.1 inches