Getting the picture cricket's relationship with photography
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What makes a great cricket picture? Wisden Cricket Monthly asked photographers, journalists and fans for their favourites
Cricket offers photographers a sporting canvas unlike any other. The distinct shapes made by those on the pitch and the angles they tend to inhabit; the colouring and character of different grounds in different countries; the proximity of players to crowds, and the room therein for visual interplay; the evocative backdrops and improvised plots of amateur cricket, which tell their own stories; and perhaps most uniquely, the value of time, or what Neville Cardus called cricket’s “occasional static quality”, opening up the space to capture the gaps between the action, when cricket people are often at their most revealing.
The game’s iconography stretches back through the centuries, infusing us with images that bind the generations to cricket’s broader narrative arc. In Issue 34 of Wisden Cricket Monthly, a cohort of cricket lovers consider the value and power of cricket photography, and select the pictures that mean the most to them. Continue reading...
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