We will be focusing on intercollegiate polo (at Stanford) by looking at the "things" (tack, equipment, supplies, etc) that are a necessary part of the polo experience - and, of course, the ponies as well. By looking at the materiality, the little details, we hope to convey the enormous amounts of work and energy that go into the four periods of seven and a half minutes of play time in a game.

Intercollegiate Polo: Project Justifications

Intercollegiate Polo: Preliminary Constraints & Concerns

Intercollegiate Polo: Web Gallery

Intercollegiate Polo: Web Slideshow

The Material Culture of Professional Polo, as contrast.

Some Preliminary Shots of Stanford Polo Club.

Not a detail shot, but a very nice action shot, courtesy of Tara.

Possibly Relevant Critical Quotes:

Where photography takes itself out of context, severing the connections illustrated by Sander, Blossfeldt or Germaine Krull, where it frees itself from physiognomic, political and scientific interest, then it becomes creative. The lens now looks for interesting juxtapositions; photography turns into a sort of arty journalism. ... The creative in photography is its capitulation to fashion. The world is beautiful - that is its watchword. Therein is unmasked the posture of a photography that can endow any soup can with cosmic significance but cannot grasp a single one of the human connections in which exists, even where it most far-fetched subjects are more concerned with saleability than with insight. But because the true face of this kind of photographic creativity is the advertisement or association, it's logical counterpart is the act of unmasking or construction.