UPDATE | Behind the scenes with Anna Rawson by Sports Photography Legend Walter Iooss for GolfDigest
About Walter Iooss
He is best known for his work with Sports Illustrated magazine, which has featured his photos on its cover over 300 times and for his portraits of famous athletes such as Michael Jordan, Cal Ripken, Jr. and Ken Griffey, Jr.. He has produced photographs for the Swimsuit Issue for more than 30 years. (*)
"I've always felt the moment. People call me lucky, and luck is a wonderful attribute. But it's more - it's a sense somehow. It's inexplicable, it happens. It's a feeling and you just move into that direction. Someone once said that wherever I am is the perfect picture. I didn't like the way it sounded but I believe that. It's not that I'm positive of it deep down inside, it's that I have to believe it. When you make that decision - 'This is the place to go' - you've got to live with it. There's no alternative." - Walter Iooss
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He's the one who started shooting football with a 50mm around his neck in addition to the 400, or 600mm and he made the cover with Superbowl shots several times when that endzone TD catch happened right in front of him and he was ready and waiting. ( via Patrick Downs)
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The first letter of his last name is not 'L', it is 'I'. Not a good error for a photography magazine, don't you think?
Yes,it is "I". I am sorry and changed. Thanks
re "He is best known for his work with Sports Illustrated magazine, which has featured his photos on its cover several times" UH, did the writer even look at Iooss's own website or ask him?
Walter's site says this: "Iooss’s shots have graced the cover of Sports Illustrated over 300 times."
He is a legend. I have photographed events alongside him and you could always tell he knew what he was looking for, and it was usually something different from the pack. He's the one who started shooting football with a 50mm around his neck in addition to the 400, or 600mm and he made the cover with Superbowl shots several times when that endzone TD catch happened right in front of him and he was ready and waiting. A photog who is brilliant at both the peak action and the illustrative or conceptual, or glamour shot too, is very rare. In addition, he's made a ton of money doing what he loves. Bravo!
SI has other great photogs too; Neil Leifer, another "child prodigy" and other greats there in the last 30 years: Peter Read Miller, John McDonough, Andy Hayt, Heinz Kluetmeier, Johnny Iacono, tech geek and photog Richard Mackson, and others, and of course the new crop.
Dear Patrick, thanks for your comment. The text is not mine, it is via wikipedia (*)
A visit to Iooss's website is well worth the trip. I have 3 or 4 of his books but didn't know he's done 15! He is incredibly prolific, and always trying something new ... a restless eye.
Oops, now I got my facts a bit wrong: "The Catch, capturing the winning touchdown at the1982 National Football Conference (NFC) Championship game." NFC championship, not Superbowl. Iooss did make an amazing Superbowl photo, of Steelers' John Stallworth catching the winning pass in the game. It made the cover of SI and won Iooss "Photographer of the Year" award at the NFL's Pro Football Hall of Fame Photo Contest. Per SI, "Iooss is one of five photographers who have shot every Super Bowl. He's landed the SI cover on a record 12 occasions, and he's had a picture in all but three of 37 SI Super Bowl photo spreads."
I can't seem to find that Stallworth picture to link it here, but it was amazing, a lyrical ballet-like photo. 1/250th of a sec with a 600mm, iirc, and the ball just floating into Stallworth's hands from above. I can see it in my mind, and it is one of my favorite peak action photos ever.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1005943/1/index.htm
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/2004_3731873/super-bowl-xxxviii-the-good-ones-are-gone-for-si-p.html
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