Boxing

By Bert Randolph Sugar, Burt Randolph Sugar, Larry Fink

Larry Fink's inimitable style captures the grace, beauty, and paternal love that are the foundations of this brutal contact sport. He creates stunningly lyrical static snapshots which reveal the divine the hope, dignity, perseverance, respect in a fighters soul. Sugar's essay on boxing as "a way out" adds cigar chomping flavor to a concise history of the sport.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576870081
• ISBN13: 9781576870082
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: powerHouse Books
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 2.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.2" x 0.7" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

How Many Words Is A Picture Worth Again?

This wonderful book by Larry Fink and Burt Sugar is an instant reminder of the old adage that champions are made not born. These photos capture the daily grind in the gym of aspiring pugilists to full blown pros. An awesome book for any fan of the sweet science.

A gift for ringside photographer

I am not an expert in ring-side photography but bought the item for a gift to a friend of mine who is ring-side photographer. All I can say he was happy.

Poetic

Larry Fink takes the sport of boxing out of standard iconography and makes it his own. His compositions are surprising and arresting in their uniqueness. I admire his uninhibited use of harsh flash and how that helps dramatize the rugged people who live the fight game. His black and white prints are so finely crafted that I can smell the perspiration.

Fink's Fighters

Larry Fink has captured the essence of the heart of boxing throughout this book. He's caught specific moments which go unnoticed on a daily basis in the gym and made them immortal. Most specific and touching are those photos of Fighter and Trainer in the locker room before the fight. An excellent, well written dabble on the history of boxing accompanies the photos as well. nice.