Andrew Auten's gritty photographs of boxers in the ring, amid punches, capture the hope and desperation not just of these pugilists but of these men. Auten has boiled off everything but the essence of the moment in these photographs.
Dante Alighieri, Mary Jo Bang, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Mark Bibbins, Sarah Fox, Bob Hicok, Rebecca Lehmann, Wayne Miller, Joni Wallace, John Edgar Wideman,