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carpeaqua (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Thanks to David Goldblatt for suggesting this awesome Lowepro Fastpack 250 as a solution to my bag conundrum. The Fastpack comes in black, red or blue and looks like it can hold a good amount of camera equipment and a MacBook Pro safely. What I really like about the bag is the attention to design. There is a video on the site that shows how you can rotate the back on one shoulder and get easy, safe...
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First Drafts (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
With the biggest and most expensive Olympic games in history set to unfurl across Beijing in just over a week’s time, our latest issue contains a special guide to the political and cultural landscape of the games by David Goldblatt, Prospect’s resident expert on all things sporting, no matter how obscure (underwater swimming competitions and [...] ShareThis
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Stockholm - Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide cited as one of the most influential photographers in Latin America was Thursday named winner of the 2008 Hasselblad Award. The international jury said Iturbide had during the past four decades bee...
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Explore : Cinema, Directors, Entertainment, Ernst Haas, Henri Cartier Bresson, Irving Penn, Josef Koudelka, Lennart Nilsson, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Nan Goldin, Photographers, Robert Frank, Robert Frank, Sebastião Salgado, Stockholm, Susan Meiselas, Sweden, Victor Hasselblad
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The Offside Rules (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
For all you bookworms and historians out there, here's an opportunity to add some serious girth to your footie library. TOR has a few copies of David Goldblatt's colossal & comprehensive soccer history tome, The Ball is Round , and I'm going to give them away to 3 lucky winners. One of the most thorough books out there on world football, this sucker weighs in at a shelf-buckling 992+ pages...basically...
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Pitch Invasion (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Today I had to return my hardback copy of David Goldblatt's The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football to the library because I’d had it for a year and they wouldn't let me renew it again. My heart sank as I deposited it in the return box, an inestimably useful synthesis of world [...]
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The Offside Rules (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
Shit man it's like Reading Rainbow around here today…you'd swear I was pre-Star Trek/"Geordi LaForge" Lavar Burton with all the book babble I am inclined to throw out today. I refrain from posting a book piece for 4 months then suddenly I start getting the itch & content to get all literary. What a weird world. So since the Love & Blood post this a.m. I've found 2 more books worth mentioning today....
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anonymous (Free subscription) | 30/11/2007
You might enjoy: The Economist: Labour's Latest Scandal: When the money machine blows up David Goldblatt in Prospect:Taking Sport Seriously Mary Norrisin The New Yorker: Postcard from Padua Der Spiegel: Amsterdam to study gay bashers
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First Drafts (Free subscription) | 22/11/2007
If anyone needed reminding that sport matters in Britain, the fact that England's ejection from the European Championships and Steve McLaren's subsequent sacking has topped the news today should seal the point. But despite the central role of sport in our culture, its meaning and appeal are still not taken seriously in Britain, argues David [...]
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anonymous (Free subscription) | 21/11/2007
You might enjoy: David Goldblatt in Prospect: Taking sport seriously in Britain Robert Kolker in New York Magazine: Death of a broker Gal Beckerman in Columbia Journalism Review: Hillary plays the game. There's nothing wrong with her aggressive attitude towards...
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 19/10/2007
Everyone is a football expert. David Goldblatt is the football expert's football expert. What he doesn't know about football could be written on the back of Sammy Lee and still leave room for the laws of the game.
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ClickPress (Free subscription) | 26/09/2007
Luminaries from the world of photography and media will be honoured at the 2007 Royal Photographic Society's Awards Ceremony (www.rps.org) to be held on October 4th at The Royal Institute of British Architects, Portland Place, London W1.
