A tennis player photographed from above mid-serve, racquet extended, court geometry visible behind

Tennis, United States

Year
1946
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Geography
United States
Collection
International Center of Photography

Provenance

Part of Munkácsi's postwar work for Life magazine, which allowed him to cover American sports with the same intimacy he had brought to European athletics in the 1920s. The overhead angle was characteristic of his experimental approach to sports photography.

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