Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice & the Will to Survive in American Boxing Gyms - Tapa dura

"A marvelously-produced coffee-table book." --Thomas Hauser, boxing columnist, "New York Sun"
"Lommasson captures the insides of America's urban boxing gyms...the way Ansel Adams tackled Yosemite." --"Chicago Sports Review

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"Gritty, grimy and gorgeous. . . Visceral and quietly dramatic . . . a lively cross-breed of art and journalism." "The Oregonian"
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"A remarkable book...a journey into a subculture that most people do not know exists...[A] very special book for your personal library." Alan Caruba, Bookviews.com, Pick of the Month
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"An inside look at boxing gyms and...a fresh perspective on a sport that many people have given up on." TalkingBoxing.com
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"A marvelously-produced coffee-table book." Thomas Hauser, boxing columnist, "New York Sun"
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"Reveals not just the grit and toil of a disappearing world, but also an unexpected sense of community and...sanctuary." "Sports Illustrated"
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"Lommasson captures the insides of America s urban boxing gyms...the way Ansel Adams tackled Yosemite." "Chicago Sports Review
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"Both up to the minute and timeless, [Lommasson's] pictures are also affecting, intricate and sometimes just glorious." "Time"
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Boxing gyms are uncovered in all of their glorious grunge in these photographs and essays that reveal both the stark reality of success and the possibility of promise in the sport of boxing. This intimate look at the fighters, trainers, and hangers-on who inhabit these gyms brings to life the tough—and surprisingly tender—world of American boxing. Evocative images reveal the pain, sacrifice, and discipline of the "sweet science" as well as the triumphs, tragedies, and big dreams of the men and women who practice it. A dozen essays by veteran boxing writers such as Katherine Dunn, Carlo Rotella, Kate Sekules, F. X. Toole, Lucius Shepard, Robert Anasi, Loic Wacquant, Joe Rein, and Ralph Wiley explore the community and culture of boxing gyms, an endangered American institution that serves not only as the training ground for the next generation of great fighters, but as a sanctuary in tough neighborhoods, a lifeline for troubled kids, and a repository of a centuries-old tradition of pugilistic knowledge.