Neil Leifer Art

Neil Leifer fell in love with photography as a teenager growing up in New York City. From the beginning his focus was on athletes and sporting events. Today he is credited with over 160 covers for Sports Illustrated. His dynamic photographs have also graced the pages of Time, LIFE, and countless other American publications. This photograph is one of Leifer's most iconic images. Here Mohammad Ali swings his glove in victory as he knocks his opponent Sonny Liston to the boxing ring floor. This legendary image was captured during the 1965 World Heavyweight Title championship. The dramatic lighting and captivated crowd make the image appear hyper-real and almost cinematic. Leifer captures every detail, from the open-mouth expressions of the audience to the signature embroidery on Liston’s boxing shorts...

Homage to Ali: Neil Leifer pays tribute to the legendary Muhammad Ali in an exclusive set of classic photographs. Ali vs. Liston II, May 25, 1965: Between their two fights, Cassius...

Homage to Ali: Neil Leifer pays tribute to the legendary Muhammad Ali in an exclusive set of classic photographs. Ali vs. Foster, Sahara Tahoe, Stateline, Nevada, November 11, 1972:...

Collector’s Edition of 1,000 numbered copies, each signed by Neil Leifer. ChromaLuxe aluminum hardcover in slipcase, 14.2 x 15.2 in., 24.84 lb, 424 pages. Neil Leifer has shot almos...

Take your place ringside with the indubitable champion of boxing photography, Neil Leifer, as he pays tribute to the legendary Muhammad Ali in an ex...

Pigment print on museo portfolio rag paper, paper size 30 x 40 cm (11.8 x 15.7 in.), hardcover volume with a clamshell box, 36.5 x 44 cm (14.4 x 17.3 in.), 264 pages. On October 3...

Pigment print on archival quality paper, paper size 30 x 40 cm (11.8 x 15.7 in.), hardcover volume in clamshell box, 36.5 x 44 cm (14.4 x 17.3 in.), 264 pages On October 30, 1974,...

Hardcover in clamshell box. Measures: 14.4 x 17.3 in., 260 pages On October 30, 1974, in Kinshasa, Zaire, at the virtual center of Africa, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to confront each other in an epic match. One was Muhammad Ali, who vowed to reclaim the championship he had lost. The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble and who kept his hands in his pockets “the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case.” Observing them both was Norman Mailer, whose grasp of the titanic battle’s feints and stratagems and sensitivity to their deeper symbolism made his 1975 book The Fight a masterpiece of sportswriting. Whether analyzing the fighters’ moves, interpreting their characters, or weighing their competing claims on the African and American souls, Mailer was a commentator of unparalleled acumen and surely one of the few intrepid enough to accompany Ali on a late-night run through the bush. Through The Fight he restores our tarnished notions of heroism to a blinding gleam, and establishes himself as a champion in his own right. Four decades after its original publication, this new abridged edition of The Fight is introduced with an essay by Mailer scholar J. Michael Lennon and illustrated for the first time with principal photography by the two men who captured Ali and Foreman in the ring and in private like no one else: Neil Leifer and Howard L. Bingham. Widely considered to be the greatest sports photographer of his generation, Neil Leifer’s vibrant color coverage dominates from ringside. It also serves as a living testimony to the pageantry, sheer physical power, and deep psychological interplay of the fighters, their camps, and their controversial host, Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko. Behind the scenes, meanwhile, Howard Bingham was Ali’s constant companion, documenting his every move from the moment he stepped off the plane in Zaire, his daily training regime, right through to the dressing room tension as he prepared to face Foreman once and for all. Together with pictures from other photojournalists, reproductions of Mailer’s original manuscript pages, and additional visual documentation of the media frenzy surrounding the “Rumble in the Jungle,” the result is a dazzling tribute to The Champ and a vivid document of one of the most epic, unique, and adrenalin-laced events in sporting history. Marking the year of the match, The Fight is limited to 1,974 copies, including: Collector’s edition of 1,724 copies, (No. 251-1,974), each signed by Neil Leifer and Howard L. Bingham Two Art Editions of 125 copies, (No. 1-250), each with a signed print by Neil Leifer Contributors The author Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the 20th century’s greatest and most influential writers, as well as one of America’s most renowned and controversial literary figures. The best-selling author of a dozen novels and 20 works of nonfiction, he also wrote stage plays, screenplays, television miniseries, hundreds of essays, two books of poetry, and a collection of short stories. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he lived in Brooklyn, New York, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. The photographers Native New Yorker Neil Leifer began photographing sports events as a teenager. Over 160 of his pictures have appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated and over 40 of his photographs have graced the cover of Time. He has published 15 books, and was one of two principal photographers in Taschen’s tribute to Muhammad Ali, GOAT-Greatest Of All Time and the illustrated edition of Norman Mailer’s The Fight. Howard L. Bingham (1939-2016) first met Muhammad Ali-then Cassius Clay-at a press appearance in Los Angeles in 1962. A year later, Ali knighted him his “personal photographer,” inaugurating a lifelong friendship and over a million photographs of The Champ both in and outside of the ring. Bingham also shot a significant portfolio of 1960s urban riots as well as portraits of other public figures as disparate as Adam Clayton...

NEIL LEIFER’s photography career has spanned over 50 years since becoming a professional while still in his teens. Beginning in 1960, his pictures regularly appeared in every major national magazine, including the Saturday Evening Post, Look, LIFE, Newsweek, Time and, most often, Sports Illustrated. Leifer eventually became a staff photographer for Sports Illustrated before leaving in 1978 to become a staffer for Time magazine. In 1988 he was made a contributing photographer at LIFE magazine and spent the next two years dividing his time between Time and LIFE. When Leifer left Time Inc. in 1990, his photographs had appeared on over 200 Sports Illustrated, Time, and People covers—at that point, the most ever published of one photographer’s work in Time Inc. history. Neil Leifer is the 2006 recipient of the prestigious Lucie Award for Achievement in Sports Photography. In 2008 he was honored for his outstanding contribution to Time Inc. journalism with The Britton Hadden Lifetime Achievement Award. Leifer has published 16 books, 9 of which have been collections of his sports photographs. Sports, his 1978 Abrams book, is considered by many to be the quintessential sports photography book. His two most recent, Ballet in the Dirt and Guts and Glory—both published by TASCHEN, showcase the very best of Leifer’s professional baseball and football photographs...

GOAT - The Greatest of All Time is a tribute to Mohammad Ali with art by Jeff Koons. A "Sumo" style book. This is number 08469 of the edition of 10000. Signed by both Ali and Koon...

Signed by the artist, numbered 27/150 (the edition also included 10 artist's proofs and 5 printer's proofs), image taken 1970, printed later Image: 15 in. x 15 in. Sheet: 20 in....

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