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American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spent the War in Vietnam | 
| Creator: Tod Papageorge
Publisher: Aperture
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 276812
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 10.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 1597110507
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9781597110501
ASIN: 1597110507
Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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Coolly observational yet intensely engaging, the immensely influential American photographer Tod Papageorge's American Sports, 1970 draws a subtle but sharp parallel between the war in Vietnam and the American attitude toward spectator sports during a time of conflict. In 1970, a watershed year for popular opinion against the war, Papageorge was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation grant. His ostensible subject--sports and its role in American life--quickly became charged with the political, racial and sexual conflicts ignited by the war. Each and every picture is electric with disquiet. Military men in uniform parade across a field or relax in the stands. Cheerleaders rehearse beneath the gaze of the police. A couple sprawls and embraces in the debris of the Indianapolis 500. And hundreds of fans are drawn in unsettling group portraits at various stadiums and in the stands of many classic American sporting events.Papageorge eloquently and palpably captures the civic and psychic distress of the time on the faces of his subjects and in their gestures and interactions. This is a remarkable, unexpected body of work--published here for the first time--by an artist and teacher who has shaped the creative efforts of many of the most influential American photographers of the past three decades.
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A unique and highly recommended addition April 4, 2008
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Founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, Minor White, Beaumont Newhall, and Nancy Newhall, Apeture (a non-profit foundation dedicated to advancing photography in all of its forms and formats) has been a premier publisher in the field of photography and photographic studies. Their newest coffee table compendium showcases the black-and-white photographic skills of Tod Papageorge in "American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spend The War In Vietnam". A compilation of photographs taken over the course of 1970 while American men and women were fighting and dying in the jungles of Vietnam, the American homefront was plunged into political chaos, campus violence, and a rapidly diminishing enthusiasm for the war. At the same time, Americans were attending their usual rounds of sporting events and it is these that were captured by the photographic lens of Tod Papageorge. In a time of political turbulence and social unrest, nothing was to stand between the fans and their favorite pastimes. "American Sports, 1970" is a unique and highly recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library American 20th Century Photographic Studies" reference collections.
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