2-4-6-8: American Cheerleaders and Football Players

By: Finke, Brian

2-4-6-8 is a seriocomic guided tour into the megaphone world of pyramids and liberties, pompoms and backbends, tackles and touchdowns. Narrated with affection and respect, it snaps and waves like a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884167349
• ISBN13: 9781884167348
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Umbrage Editions
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.3" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

A superb pictorial in celebration of an American phenomenon played out on and off the highschool foo

Featuring an essay by Zev Borow and an interview with Kathy Ryan, 2*4*6*8: American Cheerleaders And Football Players is primarily a serio-comic photographic survey by Brian Finke of the American subculture of megaphones, pom-poms, back-bends, tackles, and touchdowns of football players and cheerleaders. Showcased are the crowd-leasing, stunt-building, skirt-flipping girls and the uniform clad gladiators of adolescent football as played out in almost every highschool in the country. The images were captured by Brian Finke's photography over a two-year period as he went from camp to competition in pursuit of the top teams and the squads of girls who cheer them on. 2*4*6*8: American Cheerleaders And Football Players is a superb pictorial in celebration of an American phenomenon played out on and off the highschool football fields with a passion and intensity that belies our ordinary notions of adolescent youth.

Beautiful and Moving

The pictures of football players and cheerleaders presented in the book are visually arresting and emotionally moving, many with a vaguely religious sense to them. Highly recommended for all documentary photography fans.