Julie's Beau photograph of Major Taylor - American professional cyclist. Taylor could be considered the greatest American sprinter of all time - c1906
The Frenchman Jules Beau is considered the first photographer to specialize in shooting sports and distributing the work to the press. He was a photographer of “the people’s sports” and was particularly attracted to the new Parisian craze of “velocipede,” which soon became a competitive sport. His albums are filled with men and women posed on their bicycles much like these photographs of Marshall “Major” Taylor, an African American who won the one-mile track cycling world championship in 1899 and who would go on to set many world records in cycling - Brooklyn Museum
Size: 2220px × 3130px
Photo credit: © photo-fox / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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