Walter Iooss, Jr. photographed for "Sports Illustrated" over a 30-year career. This collection offers his best photographs of the sport closest to his heart--baseball. The 135 images presented in this book, spanning Iooss's entire career, are introduced by sportswriter Tom Boswell and produced by Rare Air, Ltd., the team that designed Michael ...
In his 40-year career, Iooss has covered major sporting events and taken countless portraits of top personalities. Part travelogue and part memoir, this artistic diary weaves over 150 photos and illustrations, newspaper clippings, and handwritten thoughts into visually arresting collages to chronicle his life and behind-the-scenes work.
For Iooss - whose efforts have graced the cover of "Sports Illustrated" nearly 300 times - every picture really does tell a story. Here he highlights his favorites with behind-the-scenes anecdotes. For the famous "Blue Dunk" overhead shot of Michael Jordan taken in 1987, Iooss personally painted the parking lot, stationed himself in a cherry ...
In the 1960s, when golf was beginning to attract a worldwide television audience, and its champions were becoming figures followed by national magazines, Walter Iooss was among the first photographers to capture the anticipation and tension, the focus and concentration, the heartbreak and victory of the world of golf. From Arnold Palmer in his ...
Joe DiMaggio, Sandy Koufax, Cal Ripken, Sammy Sosa: more than mere athletes, these men, with their superlative physical skills, grace under pressure and all-too-human foibles, rank as classic American heroes. Here, world-famous photographer Walter Iooss Jr. presents equally classic images of baseball greats of the past 40 years. Combining ...
In a time when loyalty and endurance are increasingly becoming forgotten as the building blocks of excellence, Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. stands as a steadfast example of what makes baseball "America's game". Now the team that gave readers Rare Air and Andretti provides an up-close look at this future hall-of-famer. 100 color ...
This newest collection from one of the world's preeminent sports photographers presents 175 of Looss's snapshots celebrating the game of football--from kids at play to the game's greatest players and coaches. 150 color, 25 b&w photos.
A photographic autobiography on the life of basketball player, Michael Jordan. It tells of his life as a superstar, why he retired, why he played minor-league baseball and why he returned to basketball.
Stunning images gleaned from thirty-four years of thrilling pictures taken for Sports Illustrated make this collection a major new photography showcase. This marvelous retrospective of a veteran photographer's work brings together diverse activities: baseball, basketball, boxing, surfing, and speed skating, as well as fashion and beauty shots. In ...
Former Sports Illustrated staff photographer Walter Iooss, Jr. offers 20 years of his best pictures of football, with a provocative text by bestselling novelist Dan Jenkins, the author of Semi-Tough. Approximately 135 photographs, 120 in full color.
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