Dewey Nicks

Nicks has also created classic advertising images for such clients as Nike, Tommy Hilfiger, Levis, and Ralph Lauren.

Nicks’ first book of photography Kustom, was inspired by some of the very ideals and unique expression that originally attracted him to California.

Car culture, plastic surgery, and energetic excess were the subjects of his book, Kustom (printed in 2000 by Greybull Press).

Enigmatic snapshots of woman posed and unposed, primed for the camera or caught unaware—these Polaroids reveal the comfort and ease between Nicks and his subjects.

The resulting volume, Polaroids of Women, contains just over 100 of their favorite images from the collection and features an insightful foreword by the designer and preservationist Brad Dunning.