Sportscape: The Evolution of Sports Photography - Hardcover

Allsport UK Limited

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071483954X ISBN 13: 9780714839547

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 2000

Synopsis

Sportscape tells the story of how sport has been shown by photographers over a period of 100 years, focusing on the beauty and interest of the photographs and what they can tell us about the development of sport.

Many photographs have never been published before and each has been selected to contribute to a fascinating story of social, political and technological development over time, as well as being of interest in its own right. They have been selected from the collection of Allsport, the world's leading sports photographic agency, and the historic Hulton Getty Archive. Through this fascinating, surprising and beautiful selection, the momentum of the pictures give the book a dynamic thrust: from amateurism to professionalism, from wide views to tight focus, from black-and-white to colour, from local to international...everything getting faster and brighter and more dynamic as the century progresses.

Director of The Photographers' Gallery in London, Paul Wombell's curatorial skills are at the core of the book. Sports columnist for The Times and Sports Feature Writer of the Year, 1999, Simon Barnes' introduction compellingly discusses the diverse themes that emerge from the pictures to draw fascinating comparisons between photographs and events separated by entire decades.

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Review:

'You don't have to be a jock to fall for Sportscape, a massive slab of sports images...the images have been chosen with an eye trained on art as well as action.' (Village Voice)

'There's enough variety and off-beat material here to surprise the most well-schooled of aficionados...This is definitely a home run. (Or, depending on who's reading what, a touchdown, a goal, a gold medal, or a hole in one.)' (Biography Magazine)

Synopsis:

This compendium of sports photography tells the story of the way sport has been shown through the medium of photography from 1900 to the present. Selected from the archives of Allsports, a leading name in sports photography - and incorporating the Hulton Getty sports collection - the photographs reveal themes from amateurism to professionalism, wide views to tight focus, black and white to colour, and from local to international. Everything gets faster, brighter and brasher as the century progresses. Each of the five chapters is introduced with a discussion characterising the developments of the era, and the pictures are broken into sequences with a short paragraph of associated text explaining the point that the selection is illustrating. Many of the most famous personalities of the century are represented, including: Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Ronaldo, Pele, George Best, Ayrton Senna, Shaquille O'Neill, Sugar Ray Robinson, Diego Maradona, Jesse Owens, Roger Bannister, Jim Jeffries and Stirling Moss.

About this edition

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 071483954X
• ISBN 13: 9780714839547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Wombell Paul