- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; New edition edition (26 Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316647985
- ISBN-13: 978-0316647984
- Product Dimensions: 30.7 x 23.6 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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- #28 in Books > Sports, Hobbies & Games > Other Sports > Sporting Events > Sporting Venues
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At the age of eight, Stuart Clarke and his brother created a full-size football pitch in the field behind their Hertfordshire home. It was to ignite a lifelong passion for the game and a fascination with the spaces in which it is played.
Twenty years later-- following Hillsborough--Clarke began a project for the Football Trust that was to become the landmark touring exhibition "The Homes of Football".
Out of a simple commitment to chronicle the changing face of football in the intervening years, he has produced a wonderful body of work, balancing narrative and technique in the creation of images that are both resonant and surprising.
From the ‘98 World Cup final, to Ullswater United vs Langwathby played in the shadows of a Lakeland Fell, this is Clarke's photographic love letter to the greatest game, and to the fans who, like him, invest their own childhood dreams every Saturday, whether playing or watching.
Plenty of use is made of the book's full-colour large format. The fold-out panoramas-- whole match day stadiums from end to end encompassed in a single frame--are uniquely detailed and evocative.
The pick of this treasure chest: Savour Gary McCallister's missed penalty for Scotland vs England in Euro ‘96 in glossy fold-out glory; Wembley in the instant of holding its breath; Seaman sprawling; Shearer and Hendry, aloof, hands on hips in the centre circle; the sun glinting off McCallister's head as he stares forever in disbelief.
This is wonderful stuff. --Alex Hankin
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
'His eloquent lens tells ... about an experience so regularly shared, so seldom vocalised by all of us who watch, play or simply live in the vicinity of football'
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Most football fans won't have a book for their coffee table at home...most football fans won't have a coffee table. This book is so good that it's worth getting a coffee table to put it on. The photographs are simply breathtaking, it is by far the best collection of football photographs ever taken. After first looking through it you will want to rush out and go to the nearest football game, you'll want to go to football grounds that you previously had no interest in. It captures the essence of football and the football fan brilliantly, it'll remind you why you love the game so much.
Format:Paperback
Stuart Clarke is a social historian of the modern age, with a love of football, a perceptive eye and is a marksman with a camera. We are very lucky indeed to have him living in our time.
Unlike several camera-equipped social historians who have sought to espouse elements of our traditional industries and ways-of-life, Stuart Clarke really loves his subject and has real committment and knowledge.
I cannot exactly explain it but, whereas a news photographer regards his subjects without compassion, and may even project malice onto the page; Stuart Clarke's photographs exude affection, interest and respect.
Commenting as an amatuer photographer myself, whose finest photographs have been of people in their own surroundings. Stuart Clarke's images, viewed individually are masterpieces. Viewed as a whole, they capture innumerable souls, their act of breathing suspended simultaneously, for that moment wherein the shutter clicked.
It would never have been possible to induce a person to create all this with the motive of simple financial gain in mind. To create this collection they would always have had to want to do it.
Unlike several camera-equipped social historians who have sought to espouse elements of our traditional industries and ways-of-life, Stuart Clarke really loves his subject and has real committment and knowledge.
I cannot exactly explain it but, whereas a news photographer regards his subjects without compassion, and may even project malice onto the page; Stuart Clarke's photographs exude affection, interest and respect.
Commenting as an amatuer photographer myself, whose finest photographs have been of people in their own surroundings. Stuart Clarke's images, viewed individually are masterpieces. Viewed as a whole, they capture innumerable souls, their act of breathing suspended simultaneously, for that moment wherein the shutter clicked.
It would never have been possible to induce a person to create all this with the motive of simple financial gain in mind. To create this collection they would always have had to want to do it.
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