Customer Reviews:
 Shoots and Scores December 22, 2006
Reuters, whose origins date back to the 1850s, is best known as a news service that provides reports to newspapers and broadcasters around the world. It established the Reuters News Pictures Service in 1985, and the group has become one of the world's leading providers of photos. It employs over 120 full-time photographers and the images they capture are used by roughly 1500 newspapers and magazines worldwide.
This is a beautiful book, with a wide variety of sports included : soccer, American Football, tennis, gymnastics, baseball, skiing, ice-hockey, boxing and cycling all feature. Each photo is accompanied by a short passage explaining the background to the shot. However, the pictures aren't always of the rich and famous : while the likes of Diego Maradona, Ernie Els, Michael Johnson, Zinedine Zidane, Michael Schumacher and even Ben Johnson appear, some of the better photos feature the amateurs and spectators. There's a streaker at golf's British open, herders in Tibet playing outdoor billiards and Jamaica's very eye-catching support from the 2002 World Cup Finals. There's even one from the Sumo ring that's bound to raise a smile. For me, though, the most spectacular shot was taken during Pamplona's famous bull-run. I suspect I'm not alone : one newspaper in Germany apparently ran it under the headline "How well is the photographer ?". The only photos that may put some off come from the world of bloodsports. For example, there's one from the Waterloo Cup (hare thankfully intact) and another from the bullring (featuring a very bloodied bull that doesn't have too long left). However, even allowing for that, this is still a book I would highly recommend.
Sport Photography y How it should be doney December 5, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The thing that inspired me to buy 'The Art of Sport' was the shear simplicity of the images. The images have a brief description of the methods / situations that they were taken in.
Well laid out and - large - reproductions of the images. Far more images than words in this book. The book is well bound and has a distinct feeling of quality. Would look good on any coffee table.
I have a quick look at the images just before I go out to take sports pictures, hoping that some of the vision / talent / art will rub off on me.
Well worth reading if you are an aspiring sports photographer. It certainly reprogrammed my picture taking to achieve a more artistic approach to the images that I am capturing.
 A good book December 4, 2002
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This isn't a bad book. It does contain some very good and memorable images. However, it also contains some poorer ones, that maybe shouldn't have been included. As a motorsport photographer myself, I would be very critical of the F1 images in the book, which are very poor. Maybe it is because Reuters snappers tend to try their hand at all types of sport and photojournalism, whereas a dedicated agency, such as Allsport, have people covering 1 or 2 sports only.The text accompanying the images is good in some circumstances, letting us know how the snapper came upon the picture or what he/she had to do to capture the image. Some of the text on the other hand is rather dull, not giving any insight into the image. All in all, not a bad book and I'd recommend it to those who like their sports photography to be different to the norm.
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