SportsPickle - Filed Under "Baseball Card Recollections" http://www.sportspickle.com/tag/baseball-card-recollections Filed Under "Baseball Card Recollections" /article/858 Baseball Card Recollections -- with photographer Jean-Philippe Garceau Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:05:21 -0400 The baseball card industry has been dying for years. But there was a time when every sports-loving kid had shoeboxes full of cards.


What few collectors know is that every baseball card photo during collecting's heyday was taken by one man: Jean-Philippe Garceau — baseball card photography artiste!


Garceau was a classically-trianed painter who, while attending the Royal Academy in London, went on an exchange program to the Art Institute of Chicago. There he took in a Cubs game and became instantly smitten with America's national pastime. He decided to focus his talents on baseball card photography. The rest is history.


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