Tod Papageorge "American Sports, 1970 or, How We Spent the War in Vietnam"
Pace MacGill
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An exhibition of over forty gelatin silver prints from Tod Papageorge’s series, “American Sports, 1970.” Shortly before the Kent State shootings in the spring of 1970, Papageorge received a Guggenheim Fellowship to “document as clearly and as completely as possible the phenomenon of professional sport in America.” Eight months later, having traveled throughout the country to photograph such classic sporting events as the World Series, the Cotton Bowl, the Preakness Stakes, and the Indianapolis 500, Papageorge returned to New York with a body of work that can now be seen to comprise an incisive portrait of a nation reeling from the impact of the myriad political, sexual, and racial struggles created by the conflicting pressures of the war in Vietnam.
[Image: Tod Papageorge "Opening Day (Boston vs. New York), Yankee Stadium, New York" (April 7, 1970) gelatin silver print 12 x 18 in.]
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from June 11, 2009 to August 28, 2009