New photography book to accompany blockbuster Brooklyn Museum exhibition ‘Who Shot Sports’
As the first week of the Rio 2016 Summer Games concludes and baseball’s pennant races heat up, there’s no better time to visit the Brooklyn Museum’s “Who Shot Sports” exhibition — and no better time to stock up on the perfect Hanukkah, Christmas or Kwanza gift for the sports fan in your life: the book the exhibition is based on, Gail Buckland’s monumental and definitive study, also called “Who Shot Sports.”
The book is, indisputably, the most comprehensive and definitive tribute to the long unsung photographers who shot our most iconic sports photographs — photographs that reside in the collective memory of not just sports fans, but of anyone who recognizes great works of art. Buckland, doff your cap — you’ve hit a walk-off home run.