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‘1/1000th’ features stunning sports photography of Bob Martin
"1/1000th: The Sports Photography of Bob Martin" is perhaps the most spectacular book of sports photographs ever published — and that may be because the British-born Martin doesn't consider himself...
‘Hockey’s Greatest Photos’ celebrates photography of Bruce Bennett
Hockey is perhaps the most challenging of sports to photograph. The action is unrelenting and unpredictable, and hockey arenas provide notoriously limited sites for photographers to ply their trade. And,...
Review: ‘The League of Outsider Baseball’ by Gary Cieradkowski
Graphic artist Gary Cieradkowski created the "Infinite Baseball Card Set" after his father died before the 2009 World Series. The cards were an homage to their shared passion for the...
‘Michael Jordan: Bull on Parade’ resonates like a slam dunk
Images of Michael Jordan, on and off the court, loop in our memory like a collective GIF: How his game-winning shot secured the national title for the University of North...
Review: ‘American Cool’ by Joel Dinerstein and Frank H. Goodyear III
Duke Kahanamoku hand-carved surfboards out of wood and helped spawn modern surfing. He was an Olympic swimming champ who legitimized aquatic competition. As the "Ambassador of Aloha," he did more...
Visual Detective: ‘Hoop’ by Robin Layton
The basketball courts that I grew up playing on were barebones: netless rims, blacktop asphalt that burbled in summertime, a chain-link fence that hugged the baseline like an extra defender....
Vivid revelation, with a punch
Howard Schatz's latest book, "At the Fights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing," resonates like a stinging jab. Over six years, Schatz interviewed and photographed 117 of the fight game's...
Vivid revelation, with a punch
Howard Schatz's latest book, "At the Fights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing," resonates like a stinging jab. Over six years, Schatz interviewed and photographed 117 of the fight game's...
Tape as evidence
The Bush administration's eagerness to promote the Osama bin Laden tape as the "smoking gun," proving his guilt in the Sept. 11 tragedy, sounds desperate to me. Bush had already...