The SI Photo Blog on Tumblr: A new way to experience Sports Illustrated’s iconic photography
Posted: September 29, 2011 Filed under: Andy Gray, SI.com, Snapshot | Tags: great sports photos, si photo blog, SI Vault, sports illustrated pictures, sports illustrated tumblr Leave a comment »
With the launch of the SI Photo Blog on Tumblr, Sports Illustrated is providing its fans with a new destination for 57 years worth of iconic, award-winning photography. It’s a treasure trove of thousands of photos dating back to the magazine’s birth in 1954; some of the photos are classic, some are funny and some are just plain weird. All of them will be managed and posted by SI.com special projects producer Andy Gray (@si_vault). So how did Andy develop this idea?
“It’s something I’ve wanted to do ever since I started a Twitter feed for the SI Vault,” he says. “Whenever I posted photos — especially quirky ones from the 70s and 80s — they got a ton of response. So I started thinking of what I could do to branch out.”