Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present
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Allentown Art Museum
May 4, 2018—July 29, 2018
Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present is one of the first museum exhibitions to put sports photographers in the forefront and is the most comprehensive presentation of sports photography ever organized. It encompasses approximately 230 works—from daguerreotypes and salted paper prints to digital images—that capture the universal appeal of sports, highlighting unforgettable moments of drama and excitement from around the globe.
The exhibition is organized by guest curator Gail Buckland and the Brooklyn Museum.
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Grand Rapids Museum of Art
October 28, 2018—January 13,2019
PREVIOUSLY ON VIEW AT:
Brooklyn Museum — Brooklyn, New York
July 15, 2016-January 8, 2017
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Tampa Museum of Art — Tampa, Florida
February 5-April 30, 2017
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Olympic Museum — Lausanne, Switzerland
June 1-November 19, 2017
Who Shot Sports World Tour beginning February 2019
WHO SHOT SPORTS WORLD TOUR will showcase many of the world's finest photographers from Europe, Africa, the Far East and the Americas. The exhibition begins in 1954 at the birth of the golden age of sports photography with the launch of Sports Illustrated, one of the most successful magazines of all time. Photographers, often trained as artists, were swept up with the possibilities of capturing the competitive body in motion. The exhibition will include acknowledged masters such as Neil Leifer and Walter Iooss, Jr., alongside photographers less well known such a Nigerian Andrew Esiebo's soccer pictures; Mexican Lourdes Grobet's Lucha Libre wrestling pictures; Danish Jan Grarup's Somalian women's basketball team; Australian Krystle Wright's extreme sports photography; German Rainer Schlegelmilch's Formula One documentation; Englishman Bob Martin's tennis and swimming work and his compatriot Simon Bruty's Paralympics, as well as Americans David Burnett's Olympic photographs, Howard Schatz's portraits and stop motion studies, and John Huet's street basketball images to name just a few. The need to capture action at high speed requires advanced technical capabilities and sports photographers since the 19th century have constantly pushed their craft, benefitting the entire discipline. (The exhibition will also include a historical section.) They innovated and demanded underwater cameras, faster films, longer lenses, cameras allowing for greater mobility and precision that let us see the human dimension of sport in a whole new light.
The exhibition is curated by GAIL BUCKLAND for international travel.
Booking Inquiries: Susan Bloom, Exhibition Coordinator phone: 917.826.2758 email: susansbloom@gmail.com
Gail Buckland and Howard Schatz in front of his photograph of Sergio Martinez in the book and exhibition Who Shot Sports. Photograph by Howard Schatz, ©Schatz Ornstein, 2016
Ivy and Stephen Taylor to whom the book is dedicated, enjoying themselves at the opening of Who Shot Sports at the Brooklyn Museum
Photographers Barton Silverman, John Huet (top), Donald Miralle, Gail Buckland (curator), Krystle Wright, Stephen Wilkes and David Burnett at opening of the exhibition.
Brooklyn United Marching Band performing at the opening of WHO SHOT SPORTS at the Brooklyn Museum
Entrance to the exhibition at the Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland