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Neil Leifer took his first important boxing photo from a five-dollar seat at Yankee Stadium. The year was 1959 and Leifer, aged 16, captured Floyd Patterson versus Ingemar Johansson in the ring in the center of the stadium, dramatically floodlit and surrounded by mesmerized crowds. The picture was granular, shot from a distance with a $ 75 Yashica-Mat, “a poor man’s Rolleiflex,” but it had the unmistakable Leifer touch—powerful, nuanced, and adept at finding openings others would never see.

Neil Leifer. Boxing. 60 Years of Fights and Fighters
Edition of 1,000
Neil Leifer, Gay Talese, Gabriel Schechter
Hardcover in slipcase, 36 x 38.7 cm, 8.70 kg, 424 pages
ISBN 89
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German
Leverbaar: Ja
Levertijd: 1-2 werkdagen