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Article: BOOKS OF THE YEAR
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 1, 1996
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PHOTOGRAPHYPerhaps surprisingly, the photography book of the
year is An Intimate Portrait of the Tour de France (Buonpane
Publications pounds 29.95), with a text by Philippe Brunel and
pictures by a number of anonymous photographers, mostly staffmen at
L'quipe, a paper long associated with the Tour. The book is unusual
because people who take pictures of sporting events seldom see
their work preserved within covers. And it's important because
French reportage of leisure pursuits from around 1930 to the mid-
Sixties has given us the best sports photography ever.
Those years were also the great era of the Tour, when it had an
almost intimate relationship with its devotees. And this is an ...