Philippe Bordas, Au combat

Au combat

Philippe Bordas

Publisher
Filigranes Éditions
Year
1997
ISBN
978-2-910682-34-7
Specifications
Japanese stab-stitch binding
127 x 165 mm
10 black-and-white photographs
20 pages

This is not about sport. There is no winner, no loser - only the ritual of confrontation, the initiation into combat. On one side, English boxing: fifty boxers shut inside a church at the heart of a shantytown, fifty sweating bodies in a hall deliberately starved of air, fighting under a tired neon light, fifty outcasts possessed by the ghost of Muhammad Ali.

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