Video: What is good for a runner is death for a weightlifter: the bodies of Olympic champions in Howard Schatz's photo project
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In a healthy body healthy mind. Looks like a New York photographer Howard Schatz decided to illustrate this simple truth and presented a large-scale publication "Athlete", which contains photographs of the best Olympic athletes. It is noteworthy that the usual for pop culture "90-60-90" does not work in this case, because there are no uniform criteria for an ideal body (as it turned out).
Howard Schatz will surely be remembered by the readers of the Culturology. Ru website for his dynamic photographs, which we have already talked about. In the previous Action project, the photographer captured moments from a variety of sports, but in the present, he tried to study the body of Olympic champions in statics. The results were impressive, because the talented American managed to show the diversity and uniqueness of human bodies.
At first glance, all athletes are strikingly different from each other: tall and short, thin and overweight (at first glance), "pumped up" and "squishy". However, this is all the point of view of the amateur: in fact, every body is formed through hard training in a particular sport. So it turns out, as in the well-known proverb: what is good for a runner is death for a weightlifter.
Of course, each of the athletes in Howard Schatz's photographs is the best of its kind, which is why it is so interesting to study their physical characteristics, marveling at the beauty of strong bodies. A total of 125 champions took part in the photo cycle; Howard Schatz published them in the form of an illustrated collection. By the way, the photographer's wife, Beverly Ornstein, also worked on the publication.
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