Sedale Threatt wrote:antonac wrote:kbitboc wrote:
To me, the moment was great but the photo is bad.
couldn't disagree more. This photo is what you would show aliens to help them understand the human fascination with sport.
It's not about Jordan being great, it's about a thousand hearts hanging on a moment. you don't have the audience so well focused if the photographer doesn't understand this. If anything the context actually diminishes the photo as the outcome being so well known takes away what makes the photo great.
Bingo. It's less about Jordan, although that's obviously a big and great part of it, but all those individual fans and their expressions. I work at a sports web site and we actually had a big blown-up copy of this picture hanging up before we moved offices. You could spend all day just examining the crowd. For example, there's a little kid in a Bulls jersey among all those Jazz fans in there somewhere with his arms raised and a look of pure excitement/anticipation on his face. And on and on and on. It's iconic.
Being a Bulls fan and maybe going nuts for all six championships... The photo is iconic... That being said (oh we do have it in our office) the complaints about it being busy still stand. It is hard to tell what is going on on first glance you need to know.
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