Read the following passage and choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks Sports Photography Sport as a spectacle and photography as a way of recording action have developed together. At the arrival of the 20th century, Edward Muybridge was experimenting with photographs of movement. His pictures of a runner (41) ______ in every history of photography. Another milestone was when the scientist and photographer Harold Edgerton (42) ______ the limits of photographic ...

Read the following passage and choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks

Sports Photography Sport as a spectacle and photography as a way of recording action have developed together. At the arrival of the 20th century, Edward Muybridge was experimenting with photographs of movement. His pictures of a runner (41) ______ in every history of photography. Another milestone was when the scientist and photographer Harold Edgerton (42) ______ the limits of photographic technology with his study of a (43) ______ of milk hitting the surface of a dish. Another advance was the development of miniature cameras in the late 1920s, which made it possible for sports photographers to (44) ______ their cumbersome cameras behind. The arrival of television was a significant development in the transmission of sport. Paradoxically, it was of benefit to still photographers. People who watched a sports event on TV, with all its movement and action, (45) ______ the still image as a reminder of the game. Looking back, we can see how (46) ______ sports photography has changed. (47) ______ sports photographers were as interested in the stories behind the sport as in the sport itself. Contemporary sports photography (48) ______ the glamour of sport, the colour and the action. But the best sports photographers today do more than (49) ______ tell the story of the event, or make a (50) ______ of it. They capture in a single dramatic moment the real emotions of the participants, emotions with which people looking at the photographs can identify.

His pictures of a runner (41) ______ in every history of photography.