Photographs play a very important role in the world we live in. If used effectively and properly, photographs can so brilliantly capture the motion, energy, and essence of a moment. In Framed and Mounted: Sport Through the Photographic Eye, the role that photographs can play in sports is discussed.
It is important to note that “...but merely that many techniques are available to photographers that are ethically dubious and, whatever the motives of the photographer, a framed, two-dimensional image can never be ‘the thing itself’”. Photographs are meant to convey what is going on and the motion of the situation. Photographs accompanied by good captions or articles allow the photographs to really shine.
These still shots of sports also allow for a sort of sports social memory to be developed for sports, and answer questions like:
- “Did you see that?”
- “Do you remember when”
- “What a bod?!”
Sports Illustrated was discussed a lot in the article for its highs and lows in sports photography. Sports Illustrated has done a good job at highlighting sports photography with well-written, informative, and credible articles. However, overall, the magazine has not demonstrated the most “gender-friendly” sharing of time. Very rarelely have women been put on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and even less then that is the number of times an African-American woman has appeared on the cover. When women are featured they are often featured in a overly sexualized manner. I think it is completely fine to have some sexualized photos of athletes, because lets be real, what girl would mind seeing some shirtless shots of some men soccer players. However, I think overall there needs to be a balance between the shots of powerful and athletically dominating women, and women provocatively posing for Sports Illustrated.
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| Non-sexualized sports photograph |
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| Sexualized Sports Photograph |
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