Sportscape : The Evolution of Sports Photography

English

ISBN: 071483954X

EAN: 9780714839547

Category: Photography / History/Photography / Subjects & Themes / Sports/

Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited

Release Date: 01/10/2000

Synopsis: This compendium of sports photography tells the story of the way sport haseen shown through the medium of photography from 1900 to the present.elected from the archives of Allsports, a leading name in sports photography and incorporating the Hulton Getty sports collection - the photographseveal themes from amateurism to professionalism, wide views to tight focus,lack and white to colour, and from local to international. Everything getsaster, brighter and brasher as the century progresses. Each of the fivehapters is introduced with a discussion characterising the developments ofhe era, and the pictures are broken into sequences with a short paragraph ofssociated text explaining the point that the selection is illustrating.;Manyf the most famous personalities of the century are represented, including:uhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Ronaldo, Pele, George Best, Ayrton Senna,haquille ONeill, Sugar Ray Robinson, Diego Maradona, Jesse Owens, Rogerannister, Jim Jeffries and Stirling Moss.

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Sportscape : The Evolution of Sports Photography

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.5 inches

Width: 10.25 inches

Length: 11.75 inches

Weight: 87.06 oz

Pages: 352