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Sports and pastimes


 
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The camera has always had a fascination with motion, capturing the grace, drama, and leisure of human athletic endeavor. Luminous-Lint tracks the history of sports photography from early chronophotography to its role in the birth of mass entertainment

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Discover the history of the sporting image and the evolution of motion photography.

Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to sports and pastimes
Examples
2Fishing in the nineteenth and early twentieth century
3Naturism and the sacred purity of the body
4Coventry-rotary, Photo-tricycle, M.D. Rudge and Co. (Great Britain)
Sports cards
5Sports cards and cigarette cards
Leisure
6Leisure
7Leisure: Costume balls
8Leisure: Cycling - Penny farthings, boneshakers and bicycles
9Leisure: Fishing
10Leisure: Golf
11Leisure: Needle crafts, sewing, knitting and crochet
12Leisure: Playing cards
13Leisure: Playing chess
14Leisure: Playing games
15Leisure: Reading
16Tennis
Photographers
17William James Topley: Hunting and fishing in Canada
18Carl Jacob Malmberg: Gymnastics
19Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Japan: Martial arts
20Atelier J. Hamann - Heinrich Hamann (1883-1975, probably): Gymnastics
21Kurt Reichert: Naturism
22Leni Riefenstahl: Athletes

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