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Sports Illustrated 50 Years: The Anniversary Book
This colorful book celebrating fifty years of America's most prominent sports magazine is certainly more practical than hoarding 2,500 issues. The six-part book plays to the strength of the magazine: "The Stories" and "The Photographs" sections are the largest. The 35 articles are truncated, often just whetting your appetite for more. The companion book Fifty Years of Great Writing offers many of these in their full glory. On the other hand, the pictures are often bigger than they were in the magazine (or could ever have been with the smaller size). Lose minutes staring at Michael Jordan or Walter Payton frozen in midair. Examine the juxtaposition of a close play at the plate with the bizarre styles of a 60s women's track team. Try not to be swept away at a shot of Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain defining basketball. If you have picked up the special issues released during SI's anniversary year, you already seen a decent portion of this book. The notable new writing is Richard Hoffer's essay about the world (both sports and at large) when the magazine began in 1954 and senior editor Frank Deford's pitch-perfect introduction about why the magazine is special and how it grew up in the age of television. The section most folks will spend their coffee table moments is "The Covers," a listing of the entire magazine's cover images, both in chronological order and grouped in similar topics (Scandals, Presidents, Deja Vu). Punctuated by the best sport quotes, SI's "Signs of the Apocalypse," fascinating lists of athletes and teams that were on the cover the most times, and other sport tidbits through the ages, this area is sure to launch a thousand sport memories. Yes, all the swimsuit covers are in one place, too. One quibble: why is their "Sports Person of the Year" in the book not the same as their well-known "Sportsman of the Year?" --Doug Thomas
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Doing Documentary Work (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)
Robert Coles, a child psychiatrist whose series of books on children won him a Pulitzer Prize, has turned his watchful eye to the nature of the documentary and produced a thought-provoking book. In somewhat the manner of James Faris's recent study, Navajo and Photography, Coles reveals how documentarians like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans edited and cropped their images to produce a desired effect, and raises the question of authenticity versus manipulation. Lange, the subject of a previous biographical study by Coles, comes under close scrutiny as he contrasts her iconic image of a migrant mother with obscure photographs shot moments earlier. The author also recalls James Agee's self-critical appraisal of his and Evans's "insensitivity" and "arrogance" in pursuing an editorial assignment.
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Originally almost
all photographs were black and white. Although
methods for developing color photos were available
as early as the late 19th century, they did not
become widely available until the 1940s or 50s,
and even in until the 1960s most photographs were
taken in black and white. Since then, colour photography
has dominated popular photography, although the
black and white format remains popular for amateur
photographers and artists. Black and white film
is considerably easier to develop than color.
(wikipedia)
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Most traditional photographs
are produced with a two-step chemical process. In
the two-step process, the film holds a negative image
(colours and lights/darks are inverted), which is
then transferred onto photographic paper as a positive
image. Another widely used film is the positive film
used for producing transparencies, usually mounted
in cardboard or plastic frames called slides. Slides
are widely used by professionals mostly due to their
sharpness and accuracy of colour rendition. Most photographs
published in magazines are still originally taken
on color transparency film. (wikipedia)
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