A Short History of Sports Photography
The history of sports photography is firmly related to the trends of sport gaining popularity throughout human history. The expertise of photography from the early 1800s onward dove forward in bounds and aided an emerging media, sporting journalism. The stimulation of athletics and sport in art can unquestionably be seen in the work of the ancient Greek masters of sculpture, conversely this type of countenance was not as rampant in modern sporting venues until the invention of wet-collodion and dry-plate photographic processes. These procedures allowed for posed studio images on glass plates and tin-types, but were just not 'fast' enough…