Inside the mind of the legend of sports photography.
and I flew back on a jet which had to refuel at the halfway spot in America called Grand Island, Nebraska. So, you get off the plane for 15 minutes, they refuel the jet, and then go on to Kennedy or Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, wherever we landed, and you get a limo or a chopper.
“You know, quick’s one thing, but if you’re doing a shitty job, they are gonna get someone else, absolutely.”Iooss has three photos that are his favorite, and two of them include Michael Jordan. “And to create this look with the shadow, you can’t have a stationary basket unless it happened to be in the perfect position [meaning it had to be moved around.] There were no NBA baskets in Chicago, so we had a basket driven in from St Louis, and it was important you could have a real basket, which could be raised or lowered as Michael didn’t want to jump full blast all the time.
“My kids in Cuba playing stickball with ten kids on a corner was a Renaissance for me. It was like bringing back my childhood. I photographed a lot of kids’ sports throughout the world. The beauty in sports is when you play it, nothing else exists. If you’re having problems, once a pitch is delivered to you and you swing at it, nothing’s happening in the world.
“What I learned was in the slam dunk contest in 1987 in Seattle, which I lit [with strobes in the catwalk]. It [the setting] took a great picture, but it wasn’t Michael Jordan. I looked at the pictures, and Jordan’s face was always blocked. You didn’t know if he was coming from behind. “So, I’m sitting under the basket. I look over. He pats his knee and goes like that, so that means I have to go to one side so I can see his face. He ran from one end of the court to the other with the famous slam dunk. I was right in the basket with my Hasselblad, and he fell into my lap, which was sort of exciting for me but not for him.
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