Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (943 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385352239 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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She gives thrilling accounts of the lengths that photographers go through to get the shots they want—many times as physically daring as the athletes they are shooting Illuminates the wide world of photosport journalism.” —Lew Whittington, New York Journal of Books “Dazzling Brilliant Who Shot Sports offers a chance to show sports photographers some penitent tribute.” —Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker “A sumptuous study A glorious journey across time and space, bringing us around the world with style and grace Buckland has selected works that showcase the power of photography to fleeting moments that can make or break the game Who Shot Sports is not simply the g
GAIL BUCKLAND has written or been a collaborator on fourteen books of photographic history, including Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography, The Magic Image (with Cecil Beaton), The American Century (by Harold Evans),and Who Shot Rock & Roll. She lives in Brooklyn and upstate New York.
Amazing and noteworthy Fierce Red Pen Even if you aren't a sports fan, or historian, or photographer, the power of these photos is incredible. We saw the photo show at Tampa Art Museum and were 'wowed.' A great idea to compile in a book.. Extraordinary Curation of Spectacular Photos Featuring Spectacular Humans Precious Roy This book is incredible and a must for anyone interested in photography and spectacular humans.. Niko Alexandrou said If you like sports, get this book. Excellent book. Amazing photos
Here are photographs by such masters as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Danny Lyon, Walker Evans, Annie Leibovitz, and 160 more, names not necessarily known to the public but whose photographic work is considered iconic Here are photographs of Willie Mays Carl Lewis Ian Botham Kobe Bryant Magic Johnson Muhammad Ali Serena Williams Bobby Orr Stirling Moss Jesse Owens Mark Spitz Roger Federer Jackie Robinson.Here is the work of the great sports photographers Neil Leifer, Walter Iooss Jr., Bob Martin, Al Bello, Robert Riger, and Heinz Kleutmeier of Sports Illustrated, who was the first to put a camera at the bottom of an Olympic swimming pool and photograph swimmers from below Here are pictures by Charles Hoff, the New York Daily News photographer of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, whose images of the 1936 Berlin Olympics still inspire shock and awe and those of Ernst Haas, whose innovative color pictures of bullfighting of the 1950s remain poetic evocations of a bloody sport To make the selections for Who Shot Sports, Buckland, a former curator of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and Benjamin Menschel Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, has drawn upon the work of more than fifty archives, from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to Sports Illustrated, Condé Nast, Getty