Editing The Endless Summer (section)

== Poster ==

[[File:John Van Hamersveld - 2022.jpg|thumb|John Van Hamersveld with an original 60" x 40" The Endless Summer poster]]In 1964, fellow surfer John Van Hamersveld was a student at the Art Center College of Design and the art director of ''Surfing Illustrated Magazine'' and ''Surfer'' magazine. To produce the image that would become iconic, he organized a photo session with the producer and the two stars at Salt Creek Beach in Dana Point.<ref name="lamag.com">[https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/the-artist-behind-the-endless-summer-poster-on-his-work-then-and-now/ LA Magazine Article on John Van Hamersveld]</ref> Using photo techniques for the central image and hand-lettering the title Van Hamersveld created a “national phenomenon”<ref name="lamag.com"/> image that has endured as a classic. He was paid $150 for the art. The poster is featured in the National Museum of American History section of the Smithsonian Institution. In the description the museum noted, “The poster’s premise was Browns but Van Hamersveld took Bob Bagley’s image of the movie’s stars Mike Hynson and Robert August and Brown and transformed it into a 1960s neon masterpiece.”<ref>[https://www.si.edu/object/original-poster-endless-summer-created-john-van-hamersveld%3Anmah_1761100 Review of poster on the Smithsonian Institution website]</ref><ref>[https://www.musicconnection.com/kubernik-graphic-designer-john-van-hamersveld-the-endless-summer-to-exile-on-main-street/ Article about John Van Hamersveld]</ref><ref>[https://collections.lacma.org/node/1703177 Entry about JVH in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art]</ref>