Peter Robinson
Photographer
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Football Days Winner |
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"With its variety of pictures and richness of contents,
let alone the quality of printing and design, this is truly a masterpiece in
every sense."
Tokyo Shimbun (Japan)
"Peter Robinson's Football Days celebrates the career
of one of the greatest photographers of the 'beautiful game'."
BBC TV Football Focus (UK)
"These images make up one of the greatest visual records
of football in the modern era, charting the cultural and social development
of the game in an arresting and witty fashion. This book deserves to become
an essential part of any proper football fan's collection."
Sportspages (UK)
"Robinson's photos perfectly capture the many facets
of our game and shed new light on football."
FIFA Magazine (Switzerland)
"There is love behind these images, love not only of
the sport being played but of the people who play it and even more so of those
who follow it. Robinson has succeeded brilliantly in capturing the humanity
of the world's game."
Los Angeles Times (USA)
"Who needs words, when you have Robinson's eye."
The Irish Times (Ireland)
"Few art books grace the bookshelves of the average football
fan, this anthology of wonderfully evocative photographs deserves that honour."
Sunday Post Dublin (Ireland)
"This book quite simply is the best compilation of football
imagery I have ever seen."
Shoot Monthly (UK)
"Robinson's work is essentially joyous and often very
funny."
Time Out (UK)
"Robinson seems incapable of producing a banal image.
Evocative and dazzling, the book provides genuine insights into the worlds most
popular sport."
The Independent (UK)
"It is Robinson's sideways look, the capturing of the
incidental, the quirky, and the big picture that makes this anthology such a
classic. It is safe to say that Iwish Icould have taken any of these photographs."
The Times - Chief Sports Photographer (UK)
"Robinson brings out an intimacy that makes this work
extraordinary."
Soccer America (USA)
"Every page of this book endorses the power of the photographic
medium."
Sports Graphic Number Tokyo (Japan)