Victory Lap, Atlanta, GA, Photographer: Amy Sancetta, API WorldWide Photos, 1996, Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?

May 25, 2005 - November 6, 2005
Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like? is a collection of 182 color and black and white photographs of, and stories from, women about how sports have shaped their identity. Jane Gottesman, co-curator and creator of Game Face is a native of Morristown, NJ and has searched for nearly a decade for these images that span the photographic genres: documentary, conceptual, vernacular, sports action, as well as subject, time place, age and race.

The photographs depict women participating in every sport from ping-pong to pole-vaulting and from hunting to hand ball; they range in style and substance, from sepia-toned portraits of a corseted lady with a bicycle in the 1890s, to a full-color action shot of today's muscle ripping soccer star Brandi Chastain savoring her team's World Cup victory. Each image offers a unique answer to the questions at the heart of Game Face: namely, "What does a female athlete look like?" and "What do girls and women look like, freed from traditional feminine constraints, using their bodies in joyful and empowering ways?"

This exhibition is sponsored by MassMutual Financial Group including Oppenheimer Funds Inc.