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American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spent the War in Vietnam

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Founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, Minor White, Beaumont Newhall, and Nancy Newhall, Apeture (a non-profit foundation dedicated to advancing photography in all of its forms and formats) has been a premier publisher in the field of photography and photographic studies. Their newest coffee table compendium showcases the black-and-white photographic skills of Tod Papageorge in "American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spend The War In Vietnam". A compilation of photographs taken over the course of 1970 while American men and women were fighting and dying in the jungles of Vietnam, the American homefront was plunged into political chaos, campus violence, and a rapidly diminishing enthusiasm for the war. At the same time, Americans were attending their usual rounds of sporting events and it is these that were captured by the photographic lens of Tod Papageorge. In a time of political turbulence and social unrest, nothing was to stand between the fans and their favorite pastimes. "American Sports, 1970" is a unique and highly recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library American 20th Century Photographic Studies" reference collections.

Great collection of candid shots from the 70's from a lesser known but masterful photographer, checkout Passing Though Eden from Papageorge as well, a better but quite different book.