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Matinee: 'The Images of the Paris Olympics'
10 August 2024
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 565th in our series of Saturday matinees today: The Images That Have Defined the Paris Olympics.
This 4:27 segment from yesterday's broadcast of the PBS News Hour looks back at two weeks of Olympic competition through the eyes of the Getty photographers who captured them.
Getty shoots over five million images during the Olympics, covering every event.
Appearing in the video are:
- Naomi Baker. Covering gymnastics, she notes, "Anything can happen." She was one of 160 photographers covering Simon Biles on the beam. From the same angle.
- Charles McQuillan. He observes sharpshooting is not "an action packed sport" but a methodical process. He focuses on the faces.
- Adam Pretty. He covers swimming with an underwater robotic camera. "You really have to pay attention to who is actually winning the race," he says. It's often very close.
- Michael Heiman, Getty vice president of global sport. He sees emotions at the Olympics you don't see at other sports because this is as good as it gets for many of these sports. "And they deserve to be seen."
And seen there are. Accompanying the remarks by all four are the indelible stills from these Games of the XXXIII Olympiad.