{"id":18766,"date":"2023-05-22T11:04:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T15:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18766"},"modified":"2023-06-09T17:06:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T21:06:34","slug":"walter-iooss-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/walter-iooss-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Iooss Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Walter Iooss (American, 1943)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A highly influential sports photographer, Walter Iooss Jr.\u2019s images transcend the fame of his subjects, showing the trust they feel with the photographer. Born to a family of sports fans in Texas, Iooss discovered photography aged 15. At 17, he got his first assignment for <em>Sports Illustrated, <\/em>and by 20, he was shooting magazine\u2019s covers. Today Iooss\u2019s images have appeared on over 300 covers of <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>, including of athletes like Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Pele, Cristiano Ronaldo, Michael Phelps, and Serena Williams. He also photographed the first 52 Super Bowls, created a <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling photo essay with Michael Jordan, and shot campaigns for Nike and Adidas. Before his prolific career in sports photography, from 1968 through 1972, Iooss was an in-house photographer for Atlantic Records in New York where he photographed many rock-and-roll stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"19567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/iooss-turner-900x600.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/iooss-turner-900x600.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/iooss-turner-400x267.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/iooss-turner-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/iooss-turner-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/iooss-turner-942x628.jpg 942w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/iooss-turner.webp 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Iooss (American, 1943) A highly influential sports photographer, Walter Iooss Jr.\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18766","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19568,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18766\/revisions\/19568"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}