Beyond the Finish-Line: Images, Evidence, and the History of the Photo-Finish

Title: Beyond the Finish-Line: Images, Evidence, and the History of the Photo-Finish; Find out more!
Description: In the 1880s photographers and sports enthusiasts confidently declared the end of dead heats in sporting competition. Reflecting a broader social belief in technology, proponents of the camera stressed that the device could provide definitive proof of who won and who lost. Yet despite this remedy for the inadequate human eye, competitive races between horses, boats, and bicycles ended too close to call a sole champion. More than a century later, when cameras can subdivide the second into ten-thousandths and beyond, athletes continue to cross the finish line in ties.
Creator: Finn, Jonathan, author
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Date: 2021
Type: Image
Format: JPEG
Identifier: ISBN : 0-2280-0451-9
ISBN : 0-2280-0343-1
Source: https://ocul-wlu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_WLU/16h6n2s/alma9953320552905156
Language: EN
Rights: Access available to all users.

Item sets: Scholarship; Faculty of Arts; Scholarship: Waterloo; Communication Studies

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