I’ve become really interested in boxing-related stuff, although I don’t really follow the sport. (HBO’s excellent and addictive series 24/7 is the closest I come to even watching it.) Scrolling through my iPhone album and wanting to play with my new VSCO CAM app, I decided to process and post a little collection of some of the boxing-related images I’ve snapped this past year. The shot above is the back entrance of a boxing gym in Las Vegas.
Here’s a wood-burned portrait of Joe Brown that I spotted at the mind-blowing Mantiques Modern store last weekend:
A pair of old boxing gloves that I bought at Brimfield last August:
Another Brimfield purchase: a vintage movie poster for The Fighting Gentleman, rendered in a crude style that you don’t normally see on movie posters, and in just one color. (I also bought the old circus poster.)
Here are a couple reproduced and enlarged photos for sale in the Timothy Oulton department at the ABC Home store:
I saw these great paintings in a store window in DUMBO. They’re from the series “The Golden Age of Jewish Boxing” by Charles Miller:
Brooklyn artist George Spencer paints only boxers, and it feels like blood, sweat and tears are his primary tools. I first saw his visceral work at the Brooklyn Flea, and it stopped me in my tracks. I bought two of his originals through his Etsy store:
And here’s another boxer painted huge on a wall outside that gym in Vegas:
