Maureen M. Smith, Daniel A. Nathan, Sarah K. Fields

Sports Through the Lens

Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs
Herausgeber: Smith, Maureen M; Fields, Sarah K; Nathan, Daniel A

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 138mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781477330098
• ISBN-10: 1477330097
• Artikelnr.: 70064135

Autorenporträt

Edited by Maureen M. Smith, Daniel A. Nathan, and Sarah K. Fields

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1. The Making of a Non-Iconic Sports Photograph: John Hemment’s
Salvator v. Tenny (Jonathan Finn)
* 2. The Slide: Ty Cobb Steals Third (Neil McCabe)
* 3. The Long Count: Dempsey and Tunney (Elliott J. Gorn)
* 4. “Some Are Easy and Some Are Tough--That’s All There Is to It”:
Nickolas Muray’s Portrait of Babe Ruth (Edmund F. Wehrle)
* 5. Woman in White with an Outstretched Arm: Helene Mayer, 1936 (Allen
Guttmann)
* 6. The Odd Couple: Althea Gibson and Alice Marble, Forest Hills, 1950
(Ashley Brown)
* 7. Willie Mays and the Catch Heard \`Round the World (George Gmelch
and Howard De Nike)
* 8. Jackie Robinson: Safe at Home (Maureen M. Smith)
* 9. Alan Ameche from the One: The 1958 NFL Championship Game (Daniel
A. Nathan)
* 10. The Moment of Truth: Ali-Liston II (Carlo Rotella)
* 11. When Push Came to Shove: Kathrine Switzer, Jock Semple, and the
Boston Marathon (Susan Ware)
* 12. Perched Valor: The Black Power Photograph That Exposed Injustice
and Transformed Generations (Terry Anne Scott)
* 13. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Broadway Joe: Joe Namath in
Fort Lauderdale, 1969 (Travis Vogan)
* 14. Secretariat at the Belmont (Jonathan Silverman)
* 15. “Henderson Has Scored for Canada”: Photographing Canadian
Nationalism (Russell Field)
* 16. U.S. vs. Them: American Nationalism and Sports Illustrated’s
Famous Cover Image of The Miracle on Ice (Chris Elzey)
* 17. Time Stamping Centre Court: Borg at Wimbledon (Michael
Butterworth)
* 18. The Art of Fernando Valenzuela: Baseball and Chicanx Culture in
California (Bernardo Ramirez Rios)
* 19. Michael Jordan at the 1988 Slam Dunk Contest: Liftoff for the NBA
and Nike in the New Gilded Age (Sean Dinces)
* 20. Sovereign Celebration: Cathy Freeman, 1994 (Matthew Klugman and
Gary Osmond)
* 21. Moment of Victory: Brandi Chastain and the 1999 World Cup (Sarah
K. Fields)
* 22. Play Ball: Mo’ne Davis and the Visualization of Athletic Girlhood
in Sports Illustrated (Samantha White)
* 23. To Dream Again: The Founding of NIFA and the First World
Indigenous Women’s Soccer Champions (Christine O’Bonsawin)
* 24. Kaepernick’s Cliché (Timothy B. Spears)
* 25. The Hug: Finding A Community’s Future on the Pitch (Amy Bass)
* Notes
* Acknowledgments
* Contributors
* Index