The Back Cover

While shooting over 1,500 images for the book, I was constantly puzzeled as to what to do with the back cover. The image I settled on is from the southeast side of the stadium, around gate 8.

Somewhere in my life, I had come across a black and white shot of this side of the building. I suspect it might have been for a UM game program back in the late 1950's. I shot digital, and added the sepia "aged" look in PhotoShop CS4.

The windows were art deco glass block when I was a kid, and the ticket windows were right out of an old movie... iron bars and they would close it up from the inside with a section of painted wood. Notice, the late 1930's early 1040's curve effect on the ticket areas.