Through pictures and phrases, The Stadium brings to existence the emotional and visible event of the unique Yankee Stadium, recalling a distinct time while childrens and their mom and dad, joined via hundreds of thousands of alternative lovers, spent a pleased afternoon or night jointly, looking at their neighborhood heroes. Interspersed between photographer Jon Plasse’s black-and-white photographs of the unique Yankee Stadium are the reminiscences of people whose lives have been in detail attached to the ballpark: an umpire, an usher, a lager seller, a memento merchandiser, and a fan. jointly, pictures and textual content mix to invoke a fan’s stories of the attractions and sounds of this cherished ballpark: ready to shop for tickets between throngs of lovers, strolling via darkish cavernous hallways to the higher decks, seeing the spectacular outfield grass and the silky-smooth infield airborne dirt and dust, and hearing the roar of the group because the first batter steps as much as the plate. The Stadium is a becoming tribute to at least one of baseball’s such a lot storied icons.

“Plasse has captured quiet, usually intimate moments … within the Stadium, the digital camera is focussed much less at the online game itself and extra at the surroundings the sport creates. infrequent are the activities photobooks which could customize the deeply communal (some may perhaps say tribal) act of attending dwell sports, yet this can be definitely one.” — the recent Yorker

“Belongs in your activities bookshelf.” — Harvey Frommer, writer of yank Century and past: a party of the 1st Hundred Plus Years of Baseball’s maximum Team

Jon Plasse is an exceptional arts photographer whose earlier images books are the sunshine is still and Passing Moments. He lives in manhattan City.