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 flag.
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"He’s remarkable in his ability to zero in...and make [a person] seem like the celebrity of that moment." -- Kathy Ryan, Picture Editor, New York Times Magazine
"The richly colored photos capture with perfect clarity [the] sharp-edged, bright-eyed anticipatory giddiness; everyone seems breathless with suspense." -- The New Yorker
"These are expressions...that fuel our passion for...cheerleading. He captures the clarity and ambiguity that so characterize young athletes." -- Gwen Holtsclaw, Cheer Ltd.
"The richly colored photos capture with perfect clarity [the] sharp-edged, bright-eyed anticipatory giddiness; everyone seems breathless with suspense." -- The New Yorker
"These are expressions...that fuel our passion for...cheerleading. He captures the clarity and ambiguity that so characterize young athletes." -- Gwen Holtsclaw, Cheer Ltd.
About the Author
After graduating from the School of Visual Arts in New York (1998), Finke has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Details, Esquire, Time, and Newsweek. He received the Award of Excellence from The Alexia Foundation for World Peace (1998), World Press Photo Masterclass Award (2001), and The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2004). KATHY RYAN is the Photo Editor of The New York Times Magazine and lives in New York City. Zev Barrow began his career at Might Magazine in San Francisco, and his work has since appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Spin, GQ, Vibe, Wired, ESPN the Magazine, and Mcsweeney's. Borow currently lives in New York City.
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A superb pictorial in celebration of an American phenomenon played out on and off the highschool football fields,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 2-4-6-8: American Cheerleaders and Football Players (Hardcover)
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.
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Beautiful and Moving,
By mattfromchicago "mattfromchicago" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 2-4-6-8: American Cheerleaders and Football Players (Hardcover)
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.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Whatever.,
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This review is from: 2-4-6-8: American Cheerleaders and Football Players (Hardcover)
One note. Didn't hold interest. A magazine story at best- not at all a book's worth of material. I swapped mine for CDs.
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