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‘Hoops’ Photos Reveal the Geography of Basketball
For years, photographer Bill Bamberger traveled all over the U.S. and to a dozen other countries in search of one thing: basketball hoops.
On a trip to Nags Head in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, photographer Bill Bamberger was driving around when he spotted a charming house with yellow shutters, right by the dunes. But it was what he saw next to the house that would prove fateful: “this wonderful basketball hoop,” he recalls, “made out of wood, painted the same exact yellow” as the house’s shutters.
He stopped to photograph it, and on the drive home, took pictures of two or three other basketball hoops that he noticed. He was hooked.