Feeling is the Thing that Happens in 1000th of a Second

the first cricket World Cup and an Ashes Series: LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

Christian Ryan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2017
Riverrun (Verlag)
9781786486820 (ISBN)

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A book which centres on the most significant all-time figure in cricket words and pictures, photographer Patrick Eagar

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017
'Exquisite' Gideon Haigh
'Magical, a head rush, a marvel' Rahul Bhattacharya
'Startlingly original' Matthew Engel

In 1975 Patrick Eagar took some photographs which were unlike any cricket photographs anyone had seen before.

It was the summer of an Ashes and a World Cup (cricket's first), a near last-gasp summer before revolution when cricket was still a sport of helmetless faces and green fields with no advertising paint on them. A clamour of rare glamour descended on England: Thommo and D.K., baby-cheeked Viv Richards, careworn David Steele, lithe supercat Clive Lloyd, the Chappell brothers, Andy Roberts, Tony Greig, Doug Walters, trails of cigarette smoke gusting in his wake. From this raw material, a thirty-one-year-old with an expired Sports Illustrated subscription and a love of long lenses found something almost magical.

Eagar's pictures reveal that "feeling is the thing that happens in 1000th of a second". So this is a cricket book about photography and what it can do - tell the future and show human beings in ways not available to our eyes. It is part detective story, (and reconstruction of one of cricket's greatest summers), part biography, part wild-roaming conversation, part essay on the power of the image, myth and reality. It shows Christian Ryan as one of the most elegant and perceptive writers on sport today.

With seventy black-and-white and colour photographs by Patrick Eagar and other seminal photographers, it is is essential reading (and looking) for ardent fans and will exhilarate those who know nothing about cricket.

Christian Ryan is one of the most stylish and intelligent of writers on the sport today. He was awarded UK Cricket Book of the Year in 2010 for Golden Boy, his book on Kim Hughes's tempestuous period as Captain of the Australian Cricket team.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2017
Illustrationen	Patrick Eagar
Zusatzinfo	70 colour and black-and-white photographs
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	142 x 207 mm
Gewicht	374 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
ISBN-13	9781786486820 / 9781786486820
Zustand	Neuware