The Bookshelf conversation: Brad Mangin

September 15, 2013

If you’ve been following baseball for the past couple of decades, you probably have seen Brad Mangin‘s work. His shots have been a staple of Major League Baseball and Sports Illustrated, as well as other websites and publications.

https://i2.wp.com/thephotobrigade.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/blogbook.jpg?resize=202%2C202As such a veteran, I thought it somewhat counterintuitive for him to publish Instant Baseball: The Baseball Instagrams of Brad Mangin. My daughter is a photo student at NYU and I worry for her. I mean nowadays is seems almost everyone has a camera in a phone, or a point-and-shoot, so why would anyone need a professional photographer? And if a professional like Mangin “endorses” Instagram…? Of course that’s an overstatement; you still need journalists and that kind of quality is, after all, an art form.

Nevertheless, I posed that question — and others — to the West-Coast-based Mangin in a recent conversation.

Also by Brad Mangin:

https://i1.wp.com/www.jeffpearlman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/mangin-instagrams-brad-mangin.jpg?resize=525%2C312

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