October 18, 2001
USA Today
Hot Site Award
July/ August, 2001
Sports Illustrated for Women
Face Forward
July 29, 2001
San Jose Mercury News
“Books with Buzz” featured selection
Putting her ‘game face’ on
July 27, 2001
The Christian Science Monitor
Capturing the female athlete's 'game face'
— Justin Brown
July 24, 2001
The Star-Ledger
Picture-Perfect moments in women’s sports
– Kamika Dunlap
July 18, 2001
Chicago Tribune
Athletic Expression: Book, photo exhibition capture the diversity of the female ‘Game Face’
Stunning ... The photos capture an expansive portrait.
– Anne Stein
July
17, 2001
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky)
‘Game
Face’: Kentucky women are among female athletes saluted in photo exhibit
at Smithsonian
The quest to show the woman athlete over time matured just as the seeds of
Title IX were conspicuously bearing fruit.
— Larry Muhammad
July 15, 2001
East Valley Tribune (Mesa, Arizona)
Image is everything: Female athletes feel media not giving them their due
– Craig Morgan
July 15, 2001
Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine
Playing to Win
Game Face is a marvelous collection, in photographs and words, of women athletes.
July 15, 2001
Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas)
Sporting Strength: New book, exhibit celebrates female athletes
– Jessie Milligan
July 13, 2001
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The power of women in sports
A new book and exhibit show the muscle, sweat, and passion of female athletes at the top of their game.
July 13, 2001
The Dallas Morning News
Woman Power: Smithsonian exhibition shows female athletes doing what they do well: everything
Women and girls featured embody a fierceness that is quickly becoming acceptable to an American audience once unreceptive to, even disgusted by females on the field.
Smithsonian exhibition shows female athletes doing what they do well: everything.
Women and girls featured embody a fierceness that is quickly becoming acceptable to an American audience once unreceptive to, even disgusted by females on the field.
– Russ Rizzo, Washington Bureau
July 8, 2001
San Francisco Chronicle
Sportswriter’s collection puts a face on women athletes and gives them the play they deserve
Game Face shows the evolution of women’s sports through the 20th century, and how it has burgeoned from the days of barely grudging acceptance, if that, to today's big bucks, big-exposure intensity.
— Dan Giesin
July 7, 2001
Weekend All Things Considered on NPR
July 5, 2001
Philadelphia Daily News
Face to Face with women’s greats
This book is terrific . . . I am giving it to my granddaughter and I hope it will inspire her to be whatever she wants to be.
— Stan Hochman
July 5, 2001
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Win like a girl: Book, photo exhibit capture the pure joy of female athletes
The pictures detail the depth and spectrum of women’s athleticism.
– L.A. Johnson
July 3, 2001
Denver Post
Women in Motion: New book of photographs capture women in sports with their game faces on
We see women large and small, slim, powerful, straining, graceful, awkward, in their prime and well past it. What we do not see is cheesecake.
— Laura Kilborn
July 2001
Mode Magazine
Leveling the Playing Field: A strong, active body
(whatever its age and shape) is a beautiful body
“... Images in Game Face are forceful reminders that athletic competition
helps on appreciate the body for what it can do, regardless of size or shape.”
— Sayre Priddy
June 30, 2001
Daily Hampshire Gazette
Game Face: Three local women contribute to a new book celebrating the muscle, sweat and passion of female athletes
... an array of viewpoints that, when presented together, would not only be comprehensive but would actually create a debate around the issue of women’s sports.
— Christina L. Barber
June 21–June 28, 2001
Time Out New York
Game Face explodes the perception of sports as a male bastion.
June 28, 2001
New York Times
Women as Athletes: The Pictures Don’t Lie
Years before it even occurred to me that there might be different standards in the way we cover male and female athletes, Jane Gottesman was on the case.
— Harvey Araton
June 27, 2001, live on-line chat
USA Today
Game Face: Book, exhibition examine century of women’s sports
. . . complex pages filled with a universe of diverse athletes . . .
— Karen Allen
June 27, 2001
Baltimore Sun
Game Faces: Celebrating the expanding world of the female athlete
Baltimore Sun photography staff package inspired by Game Face exhibition and book
June 27, 2001
Washington Post
The Universal Joy of Playing Like a Girl
Game Face is designed to broaden, deepen, and perhaps even transform long-standing perceptions of the female as athlete.
— Jennifer Frey
June 26, 2001
The Girard Press
National exhibit gives faces to women’s struggles for equality athletics: Local photograph makes a cultural statement at the Smithsonian
A photographic portfolio celebrating the determination and daring of girls and women in sports.
— Kevin Beasley
June 25, 2001
The Morning Sun
From the Sun to the Smithsonian: Brecheisen’s photograph included in collection
— Nikki Patrick, Family Living Editor
June 24, 2001
Maine Telegram
June 17, 2001
Los Angeles Times Magazine
The Pivot Point: 29 Years Ago This Month, Title IX Changed Everything for Women Athletes
One of the best things about the book is the glimpse it gives of female athletes pre-Title IX.
— Diane Pucin
June 12, 2001
Corvalis Gazette-Times
Picture Perfect
... the culmination of nearly a decade’s worth of work...
— Jeff Welsch
June 10, 2001
Washington Post Magazine
Girls at Play
From a girl swinging with blissful abandon in the unlikely shadows of a New York bridge to a young woman in catchers gear, the question the exhibit examines is, What does a female athlete look like? Encountering these images, we can be inspired, certainly, but also a little embarrassed by our surprise. How did we ever let ourselves stop looking in the first place?
June 2001
Smithsonian Magazine (cover story)
Women Athletes Make A Splash
The photographs capture little girls just discovering what it feels like to test their skills, as well as seasoned athletes.
— Sally Scott Maran
April 1, 2001
St. Louis Dispatch
Putting a Face on Women’s Sports
Gottesman hopes that women and girls feel affirmed by these photographs, and
even see themselves reflected in them.
— Ellen Gutterman
Other Coverage and
Reviews:
Oxygen.com
Game Face Photo Slide Show
What Does A Female Athlete Look Like?
– Melanie Scherenzel, Oxygen Sports
