Sports through the Lens
Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs
University of Texas Press
The stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years.
- Introduction
- 1. The Making of a Non-Iconic Sports Photograph: John Hemment’s Salvator v. Tenny (Jonathan Finn)
- 2. The Slide: Ty Cobb Steals Third (Neil McCabe)
- 3. The Long Count: Dempsey and Tunney (Elliott J. Gorn)
- 4. “Some Are Easy and Some Are Tough--That’s All There Is to It”: Nickolas Muray’s Portrait of Babe Ruth (Edmund F. Wehrle)
- 5. Woman in White with an Outstretched Arm: Helene Mayer, 1936 (Allen Guttmann)
- 6. The Odd Couple: Althea Gibson and Alice Marble, Forest Hills, 1950 (Ashley Brown)
- 7. Willie Mays and the Catch Heard \`Round the World (George Gmelch and Howard De Nike)
- 8. Jackie Robinson: Safe at Home (Maureen M. Smith)
- 9. Alan Ameche from the One: The 1958 NFL Championship Game (Daniel A. Nathan)
- 10. The Moment of Truth: Ali-Liston II (Carlo Rotella)
- 11. When Push Came to Shove: Kathrine Switzer, Jock Semple, and the Boston Marathon (Susan Ware)
- 12. Perched Valor: The Black Power Photograph That Exposed Injustice and Transformed Generations (Terry Anne Scott)
- 13. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Broadway Joe: Joe Namath in Fort Lauderdale, 1969 (Travis Vogan)
- 14. Secretariat at the Belmont (Jonathan Silverman)
- 15. “Henderson Has Scored for Canada”: Photographing Canadian Nationalism (Russell Field)
- 16. U.S. vs. Them: American Nationalism and Sports Illustrated’s Famous Cover Image of The Miracle on Ice (Chris Elzey)
- 17. Time Stamping Centre Court: Borg at Wimbledon (Michael Butterworth)
- 18. The Art of Fernando Valenzuela: Baseball and Chicanx Culture in California (Bernardo Ramirez Rios)
- 19. Michael Jordan at the 1988 Slam Dunk Contest: Liftoff for the NBA and Nike in the New Gilded Age (Sean Dinces)
- 20. Sovereign Celebration: Cathy Freeman, 1994 (Matthew Klugman and Gary Osmond)
- 21. Moment of Victory: Brandi Chastain and the 1999 World Cup (Sarah K. Fields)
- 22. Play Ball: Mo’ne Davis and the Visualization of Athletic Girlhood in Sports Illustrated (Samantha White)
- 23. To Dream Again: The Founding of NIFA and the First World Indigenous Women’s Soccer Champions (Christine O’Bonsawin)
- 24. Kaepernick’s Cliché (Timothy B. Spears)
- 25. The Hug: Finding A Community’s Future on the Pitch (Amy Bass)
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index
