Spectacular Sports Illustrated cover..
 

awesome!

Draft Kings is surely getting their money's worth..


here is the accompanied article:

http://www.si.com/horse-racing/2015/...ustrated-cover

Fantastic cover!

I was brought up on the photography of Cartier Bresson and the DECISIVE MOMENT.

Boy has the method changed since then. Still a great shot. Just saying.;)

https://www.google.com/search?q=cart...g&ved=0CB0QsAQ

https://expertphotography.com/top-10...resson-quotes/

What a wonderful shot! Just terrific! :)

I studied him at Pepperdine (majored in journalism) and the thing is... well here... here are his words from your links:

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression.

The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

So of course you're right, he was a great artist and all BUT this cover, to me, captures it on many levels and for many reasons. The crowd holding up their phones and each snapping the same shot or video stamps its date... AP being part of the moment instead of the only subject... I doubt anyone wants me to drone on with my opinion but yes... respectfully, I think it is the perfect cover. :)

I enjoyed the photographer's description of the luck involved. He was essentially shooting blind, but, fortunately, not deaf:

“During the race I had no view of the track. The crowd had begun to stand on chairs and benches,” Rasco said. “The only way I knew to fire the camera as American Pharoah approached the finish was from the intensity of the crowd around me yelling and cheering. Based on that, I fired a burst of frames from my camera. I didn’t see any of the horses at the finish. I hoped I timed it right with the crowd guiding me.”

(from http://www.si.com/horse-racing/2015/...ustrated-cover )

I have the Sports Illustrated with Silky Sullivan on the cover. This one is bettah.

:)

Ashley Zayat just tweeted that American Pharoah will be on the cover of Vogue Magazine.

Now to be on the cover of Vogue :D

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...on-vogue-cover

One can only hope it will overtake Caitlyn Jenner on Vanity Fair :D

You got it. Photography has changed alot,since when i was a shooter.;)

Great shot

A big Thank You to Jay Hovdey today friday,6/12/15 on ATR, for giving hisvalued opinion of disappointment in the chooisng of the Sports illustrateds cover shot, vs the Affirmed/ Alydar cover. Now being agreed upon by Ric Hammerle, on the changes in photography and values in the photos .
Hammer said I've got a photo like the SI cover etc.

I feel like my opinion has been confirmed, and that the SI shot is good, its not a cover and is a grab shot by an asst photo editor not a pro photog. ad doesnot feature the horse, in his glory but that the crowd is just as important, so tto me it is a supporting shot to a photo essay

** previous SI covers

http://www.sicovers.com/SearchResult...Horse%20Racing. on horseracing

except it is the cover, and is a good shot. i can see why they used. it's a great encapsulation of the tc win, a mass celebration with only the winner in the photo.
what i like the most is it's a photo of spontaneous reactions, with the addition of the camera phone craze, nothing posed and 'just perfect'

Confirmed because Hovdey and Hammer ostensibly agree that it wasn't the kind of photographic composition they would have liked to see on the cover?

Photography still is an art form, isn't it?

In terms of artistic quality as a capture and what the picture represents, it struck me instantly and perfectly as conveying that the 'event' transcended the horse.. which to the wider audience, it did.

As I said to Hovdey as well, as a New Yorker, it was redolent of one of the most famous magazine covers in history, Saul Steinberg's 'View of the World from 9th Avenue'..

:tro:

I think it's a great cover. The best pieces written on his victory are as much about what it meant the people watching the race as they are about the horse, and this cover captures that- all those arms and cameras in the air, wanting to preserve that moment when he crossed the wire. Because it meant so much to all of us who've been waiting so long to see it happen. Ninety thousand people, all cheering for the same horse. Because, really, why would anyone spend the time and money to go out to Belmont hoping to see him lose?

That day belonged both to racing fans and to the horse. Nice to see them both celebrated on the cover.

There are many beautiful photos of AP out there. The Saratoga backyard artists are working overtime painting, drawing, sketching AP for sale this summer. But nothing captures the 37 year wait and the feeling at Belmont last Saturday like this photo. Simply awesome!