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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Darius Koehli: Why Omaha?

Darius Koehli: Why Omaha?

Koehli, Darius

Hardcover

General PhotographyPhotographers

Publisher Price: $50.00

ISBN10: 3907236416
ISBN13: 9783907236413
Publisher: Ed Patrick Frey
Published: Dec 13 2022
Pages: 114
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

The golden age of the American Wrestling Association, as documented by a nine-year-old boy in 1960s Omaha

Mad Dog Vachon, Tarzan Tyler, Masao Rusher Kimura--the ring names of the wrestlers who grappled for glory in the American Wrestling Association were as evocative as they were hair-raising. In 1969, the Swiss-born photographer Darius Koehli (born 1960), then just nine years old, spent nine months with his father in Omaha, Nebraska, where a neighbor took him to the hottest spot in town, the Civic Auditorium, to see some catch wrestling. With a remarkable eye for slapstick, and using his brand-new Kodak Instamatic, Koehli produced hundreds of snapshots of these formidable hulks, during and after their bouts. In the summer of 2019, Koehli uncovered the photo album he'd assembled 50 years ago in Omaha and decided to revitalize the pictures of this extraordinary time.

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