Spectacular Sports Illustrated cover..

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Originally Posted by Benny

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

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'..