Surf Goddesses: Beauty Meets the Beach

Pursuing his thesis that female beauty along with male talent are the twin engines of human evolutionary development, avant garde photographer and filmmaker Sam Kash has devoted this photo monograph to what he refers to as "transcendent beauty"-- rare youthful beauty that cannot be defined in words, but requires actual examples for its definition: "...a beauty that is in flux, that is in radiant bloom, that is arching in time, that may peak on any given day, indeed at any given moment, and then inevitably begin a qualitative change, gone in that constellation forever, never to return to that moment again, except, according to plan, in the next generation borne of that beauty." Much like flowers that bud, then bloom for their fleeting day in the sun, but the difference here is that these rare flowers are each one of a kind.