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I am loving Smithsonian Open Access, especially its collections of audience images. Check out this 1865 wood-engraving from Winslow Homer: "Our Watering Places--Horse Racing at Saratoga." The excitement and dynamism of the audience in the grandstands, as the racers go by, is palpable, rendered with multidirectional contrasts of light, pattern, and bodily detail. #AudienceStudies #AudienceHistory #HorseRacing #SportsFans #WinslowHomer #SmithsonianOpenAccess

Looking back today at Uruguay fans celebrating their win at the first World Cup final, on July 30, 1930. I am fascinated by images of historical audiences, many of which have been digitized. I started thinking about their iconographic elements in an essay for Participations journal a couple of years ago and am now posting them on Instagram at: instagram.com/ardentaudience/. #audiencehistory #audiencestudies #fanstudies #sportsfans #worldcup

Where #rugby and #football meet.

When I was at the Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand, I met some Argentinian rugby & football fans at the South Africa vs #Samoa match at North Harbour Stadium (#Auckland). They were sitting in front of me. One of them asked to swap my Samoa scarf for his Lionel Messi football jersey he had with him. And that's how I came to own a Lionel Messi Argentina jersey (white & blue stripes). #sports #SportsFans