Headless McTavish – 1966

Bob McTavish at Point Cartwright in Queensland. For a long time during the early 1960s, the dominant aesthetic of surfing had been to pose (arching being a bonus) like one of the ancient Hawaiians – having a setting sun in the background was another plus. Nat Young and McTavish threw this nostalgia aside with an aggressive attack…few other pictures summed up their approach to ‘complete involvement’ better than this one.