{"product_id":"who-shot-sports-a-photographic-history-1843-to-the-present-9780385352239","title":"Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History  1843 to the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the creator\/editor of Who Shot Rock \u0026amp; Roll (I loved this book Dwight Garner  The New York Times. Whatever Gail Buckland writes  I want to read)  a book that brings together the work of 165 extraordinary photographers  most of their images heralded  most of their names unknown; photographs that capture the essence of athletes mastery of mind\/body\/soul against the odds  doing the impossible  seeming to defy the laws of gravity  the laws of physics  and showing what human will  discipline  drive  and desire look like when suspended in time. The first book to show the range  cultural importance  and aesthetics of sports photography  much of it legendary  all of it powerful.  Here  in more than 280 spectacular imagesmore than 130 in full colorare great action photographs; portraits of athletes  famous and unknown; athletes off the field and behind the scenes; athletes practicing  working out  the daily relentless effort of training and achieving physical perfection.  Buckland writes that sports photographers have always been central to the technical advancement of photography  that they have designed longer lenses  faster shutters  motor drives  underwater casings  and remote controls  allowing us to see what we could never seeand hold on towith the naked eye.  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  Cond Nast  Getty Images  the National Baseball Hall of Fame  Lquipe  The New York Times  and the archives of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne.  Here are classic and unknown sports images that capture the uncapturable  that allow us to experience kinetic beauty  and that give us the essence and meaningthe transcendent powerof sports.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647135211573,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385352239","price":35.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385352239.jpg?v=1781688953","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/who-shot-sports-a-photographic-history-1843-to-the-present-9780385352239","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}