Gail Couper, Nat Young and Peter Drouyn

DateJune 1966

Object numberANMS1078[047]

NamePhotograph

MediumPhotograph on paper

DimensionsOverall: 295 × 400 mm

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from Dawn and Jack Eden

Terms

DescriptionA black and white photograph by Jack Eden of Gail Couper, Nat Young and Peter Drouyn accepting their trophies at the Australian Championship held at Coolangatta, Queensland in June 1966. Nat Young won the senior men’s division with Peter Drouyn winning the junior men’s and Gail Couper the women’s division. Jack Eden started photographing surfing contests in 1958 and published many of them in Surfabout the magazine he published from 1962-1968. SignificanceThis photograph is part of a collection of Jack Eden photographs documenting the explosion of surf culture in the decade from the late 1950s. He depicts surfers and their world in competition and at rest - capturing their sporting and social customs from the position of an insider, a chronicler of surfing culture. The photographs include male and female surfers in the waves and on the beach, and the crowds, cars, customs, dating, bathing and baking rituals at events and chasing adventure along the coast.