So, Jeff Benjamin is on summer season break and he will get busy! He’s engaged on columns for RunBlogRun on the World Champs plus Summer season ebook opinions, that is his first of the summer season. Get pleasure from!
Jeff Benjamin’s Summer season Ebook Assessment
First In A Sequence
Following Pre By Don Chadez
Since his tragic demise in 1975, there have been fairly just a few books, bios, web sites, and a couple of(!) main Hollywood movies on the lifetime of the legendary Steve Prefontaine. All the above can, one would possibly say, be open to historic interpretations, prejudices, and revisionist sides of the story which, for higher or for worse, fluctuate on to at the present time.
Battling for the true interpretation and accuracy of Pre’s life and legacy will all the time go on in several paths for positive.
However, there’s solely been one ebook that captures Pre’s life in motion with none of these points above.
Don Chadez’s “Following Pre” is a photographic essay spanning over Prefontaine’s racing profession from 1969 to 1975. On this ebook, Chadez, who took all of those images of the Oregon legend, has let his images converse for itself, and boy, they positive do!
One can not assist however be motivated by many of those footage of Pre alongside different contemporaries of his occasions. Frank Shorter, Rod Dixon, John Walker, Filbert Bayi, Gerry Lindgren, and naturally Lasse Viren are all portrayed right here, notably with the Chadez pics from the 1972 Munich Olympics, the place the photographer appears like he had front-row seating to one of many best races of all-time!
“My hope is that this pictorial will convey Pre but even nearer to the followers of American Distance Working.”
It definitely has!
To buy “Chasing Pre” go to – http://www.blurb.com/
