Beginning with "Bobcats," depicting the rites of passage of a girls' softball team, and moving to "Gladiators," displaying basketball in a combative pit of racial divide, photographer Eric Payson has gone one step further in his exploration of the media and America's obsession with sports as entertainment, voyeurism, and violence with "Ghostplay." In Payson's electrifying new work, college football's raw beauty rises to the surface in photographs taken directly from the television screen; images morph into each other and ...
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Beginning with "Bobcats," depicting the rites of passage of a girls' softball team, and moving to "Gladiators," displaying basketball in a combative pit of racial divide, photographer Eric Payson has gone one step further in his exploration of the media and America's obsession with sports as entertainment, voyeurism, and violence with "Ghostplay." In Payson's electrifying new work, college football's raw beauty rises to the surface in photographs taken directly from the television screen; images morph into each other and expressions are magnified as they are frozen in time. "Ghostplay" examines the media that transmits it all, as the broadcasters and corporate sponsors appear as much a part of the game as the athletes and coaches. Interspersed with intrusive news bulletins, overeager cheerleaders, anxious spectators, and seemingly malicious data on the athletes' injuries, college football appears to be a forum for adolescent violence and pervasive adult greed. In these images, the game dissolves as the ghost in the machine of the American media is captured by Payson's camera. "Ghostplay" reveals the suspicion and intrigue lurking between the stadium seats, played out in the television control rooms, and hovering in the lower levels of our consciousness.
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