cricket photographs
John Clark
There are a lot of great cricket photos out there (I think cricket photos have won journalistic competitions
several times)...has anyone got any favourites? Here are mine...
- the obvious one...the Tied Test photo...almost goes without saying I guess.
- Herbert Fishwick's portrait of Wally Hammond's cover drive, with Ben Barnett (I think) up at the stumps...
if there is a perfect shot then this is it.
- Jack Hobbs dancing down the pitch towards the camera to drive. It's obviously posed, but spectacular none
the less.
- the other obvious one...Victor Trumper dancing out to drive (another one probably posed)
- any shot of Marshall or Imran in delivery stride...for some reason these two look great in a photo...Marshall
for explosiveness which bursts out of the page and Imran for his majestic leap, body set like a spring.
- Compton and Edrich running from the field as spectators engulf them after England regain the Ashes in '53.
I could go on....I guess the old photos kind of have more 'magic' in them since they are rarer and they often
provide the only glimpse we have of what cricket looked like back then. Any photo of pre-WWI players in
action are worth their weight in gold...how many shots are there of SF Barnes or Clem Hill or Jessop in action
are there? (the lack of telescopic lenses would be a limiting factor I guess). Probably David Frith's tome
'Pageant of Cricket' has the best collection... There are some really nice modern
photos too...its just difficult to know where to start!
I would put the above photos in a 'canonical' list...anyone add any more?
Donald Rose
John Clark <jcl...@kosal0.triumf.ca> wrote in article
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> There are a lot of great cricket photos out there (I think cricket photos
have won journalistic competitions
> several times)...has anyone got any favourites? Here are mine...
>
> I would put the above photos in a 'canonical' list...anyone add any more?
>
Yes, there's one of Thommo with his arm way behind his bum, his long blonde
hair streaming in the wind, about to fling a thunderbolt down to some poor
bastard. This exemplifies dynamic cricket.
--
Rosebud
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Babi
I had a red book from Australia called "Ten Successful Summers" or
something which was a retrospective pictorical record of the priod from
about 1978-1988. Some great pics if you licke cricket pictures.
Especially comes to mind is one of DK Lillee bowling a bouncer to Norman
Cowans. Norman's in the air, back arched, helmet flying off head, bat
in one hand, head flung back and ball about 50 cm from his scone. Good
for those of us with a bit of fast bowlers venom in the spirit...