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NEIL
LEIFER became a professional photographer while still
in his teens. Beginning in 1960 as a freelancer, his
pictures began regularly appearing in every major
national magazine, including the Saturday Evening
Post, Look, LIFE, Newsweek, Time and, most often,
Sports Illustrated.
In August 1972, Leifer became a staff photographer
for Sports Illustrated . He left Sports Illustrated
in February 1978 and became a staff photographer 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 magazines.
Leifer left Time, Inc. in 1990. By that time, his
photographs had appeared on more than 200 Sports Illustrated,
Time and People covers, the most covers ever published
of one photographer's work in Time, Inc. history.
Leifer has published 9 books, 4 of which have been
collections of his sports photographs. His 1978 Abrams
book, "Sports", has been hailed by many as the best
of its kind ever. His newest book "The Best of Leifer";
a collection of over forty years of his sports and
non-sports pictures is being published by Abbeville
Press in September 2001.
Leifer has traveled all over the world on sports assignments.
He has photographed 15 Olympic Games (7 winter and
8 summer), 4 World Soccer Cups, 15 Kentucky Derbies,
countless World Series games, the first 10 Superbowls
and every important heavyweight title fight since
Floyd Patterson beat Ingemar Johansson to regain the
title in 1960. He has photographed his favorite subject,
Muhammad Ali, on almost 60 different occasions fights
and more than 20 photo sessions.
While
Neil Leifer now devotes almost 100% of his time to
producing and directing films, there is a very good
chance that you'll spot him ringside, camera in hand,
at any big heavyweight championship bout. "It is the
one sport I still love shooting."
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