1. Charles M. Conlon
By Hunter Burdno

2. Birth and Death
Charles was born in Albany NY 1868
He died in 1945

3. How and Why he took Pictures
Charles used a graflex camera that used glass plates to print his work
His favorite subject to photograph was baseball (especially the Yankees)

4. How he got started
Conlon was a proofreader for the New York Telegram when he started taking pictures as a hobby. Then in the early 1900s he was prompted by an editor to start putting them in the paper

5. Best known Photos

6. Conlon's most famous picture: Ty Cobb stealing third, sliding into Jimmy Austin

7. Babe Ruth

8. Joe Martina

9. Walsh's Spitball Grip

10. Babe Ruth

11. Walsh's Spitball Grip

12. Impact on society
Charles had a huge impact on photography because he was one of the first sports photographers and he is the most well known from the early 1900s

13. Personal Reflection
I picked Charles M. Conlon because he was one of the best and first sports photographers and a lot of his work brings you back into his time.

14. Why his pictures are special
Colon’s pictures are special because of all the time it took for him to take his pictures and get a good print

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