Huntington Beach (Punk Kids on Bench)
Deanna Templeton
American, born 1969
Ed Templeton
American, born 1972
2015
A black-and-white gelatin silver print photograph of two young people and a dog on a bench at Huntington Beach, made by Ed Templeton to quietly record and dignify punk youth culture in an everyday coastal setting.
What hits you first is their calm, slightly defiant presence—sunglasses, piercings, band shirts and ripped jeans—posed with a relaxed dog against a sunlit boardwalk and palm trees, all rendered in sharp tonal contrasts that feel intimate and immediate.
Part of Templeton’s long engagement with Southern California skate and punk scenes, this image helped shift contemporary street portraiture toward empathetic, insider perspectives that treat subcultural youth as visible social history.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Approx. 8 1/4 × 12 1/8" (21 × 30.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Christopher McCall
Accession
453.2021.39
Palette
Exhibitions
