Sportscape: The Evolution of Sports Photography

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 All sports, 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, lack and white to color, and from local to international. The five chapters are introduced with a discussion characterizing the developments of he era, Many of the most famous personalities of the century are represented, including Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Pele, George Best, Ayrton Senna, Shaquille O'Neill, Sugar Ray Robinson, Jesse Owens, Roger Bannister, Jim Jeffries, Stirling Moss and many others.