Jim Lommasson and Katherine Dunn (2004): Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice, and the Will to Survive in America's Toughest Boxing Gyms, 1998-2003

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.25 Linear Feet

Scope and content:

Portfolio comprises five black-and-white digital prints, approximately 19x15 inches, featuring portraits and close-ups of boxers, taken in gyms in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Portland. The images were published as part of the photobook Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice, and the Will to Survive in America's Toughest Boxing Gyms, by Jim Lommasson and Katherine Dunn. Their project speaks to the power of boxing to transform lives and communities, and was awarded the 2004 Lange-Taylor Prize by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Biographical / historical:

Jim Lommasson is a freelance photographer and author living in Portland, Oregon. Lommasson has received numerous awards for his work about American veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and their lives after their return from war, and for his work on Iraqi and Syrian refugees. Lommasson was also a 2012-2016 Oregon Humanities Conversation Project Grant Recipient for his public discussion "Life after War: Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home." He and his project partner Katherine Dunn received the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in 2004.

Physical facet:

5 photographic prints

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