在过去的60年中，尼尔·雷弗（Neil Leifer）几乎拍摄了每一场重要的拳击比赛，从1959年帕特森对约翰森的**场比赛一直到2020年维尔德对弗瑞的重赛。这本由**记者Gay Talese撰写引言的摄影集展示了数百张他拍摄的**的照片，这些照片表现了拳击场内的残酷和优雅，以及由**赛、拳击手、他们的赞助人和星光熠熠的随行人员组成的盛况。

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尼尔·雷弗在洋基体育场的一个票价五美元的座位上拍下了他**张重要的拳击照片。那一年是1959年，16岁的Leifer拍摄了Floyd Patterson对阵Ingemar Johansson的比赛。拳击台位于体育场的中心，在泛光灯的照射和着迷的观众的包围下，显得有些戏剧化。这张照片是颗粒状的，用75美元的Yashica-Mat相机（穷人的Rolleiflex相机）从远处拍摄的。尽管如此，但它明确无误地体现了Leifer的风格——有感染力，细致入微，善于发现别人永远不会看到的机会。

从那次拍摄开始，雷弗就爱上了拍摄拳击。一年后，他拍摄了帕特森对约翰森的重赛，弗洛伊德·帕特森重夺**。1961年，已经取得摄影师资格证的雷弗为加入《体育画报》，与偶像Hy Peskin和John Zimmerman一起工作。他拍摄了他们的迈阿密橡胶比赛——他的一张照片被作为杂志的封面。25岁时，他为穆罕默德·阿里拍摄了最经久不衰的图像，为他和阿里的职业生涯奠定了重要的基调。他在1965年和1966年拍摄的两张照片——一张是得胜的阿里站在倒下的桑尼·利斯顿面前，一张是被击倒的克利夫兰·威廉姆斯的鸟瞰图——被认为是有史以来最伟大的体育照片。

作为拳击摄影界无可争议的**，后来的雷弗几乎拍摄了过去60年的每一场重要比赛。他曾在 "丛林之战"、"马尼拉之战 "和 "沙丘上的决斗 "的擂台旁。他见证了乔·弗雷泽和阿里之间的**场比赛（这两位都是不败的重量级**），以及弗洛伊德·梅威瑟在为他们2017的比赛举办的媒体邀请会上向康纳·麦格雷戈（Conor McGregor）撒美元钞票。从老麦迪逊广场花园的黑白照片到拉斯维加斯的付费烟火，没有人能用更犀利的眼睛观看这项运动及其奇观。2014年，莱弗成为有史以来**入选国际拳击名人堂的摄影师。

《雷弗，拳击60年的拳击赛和拳击手》包含数百张他**的摄影作品，**记者盖伊·塔莱塞从那个时代**的拳击专栏中收集而成的一篇引言，以及体育作家加布里埃尔·谢赫特的撰写的精辟说明（详细介绍了拳击场内的盛况、名人和喧闹）。这本书是雷弗前所未有的成就的巅峰，为他所热爱的运动留下了一笔经久不衰的遗产。

这本向拳击运动致敬的摄影集采用ChromaLuxe铝制封面，红色人造皮革书脊（向拳击手套致敬），并以定制的布套包装。

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摄影师介绍

土生土长的纽约人尼尔·雷弗（Neil Leifer）从十几岁开始拍摄体育赛事。他有160多张照片出现在《体育画报》的封面上，有40多张照片登上了《时代周刊》的封面。他出版了17本书，是TASCHEN向穆罕默德·阿里致敬的《GOAT——最伟大的时代》和Norman Mailer的《格斗》的插图版的两位主要摄影师之一。

作者信息

盖·塔里斯于1955年加入《纽约时报》，并在那里工作了十年。20世纪60年代和70年代，他为许多杂志，主要是《时尚先生》（Esquire）撰写了许多文章。塔利斯出版了11本书畅销书，包括《邻人之妻》（Thy Neighbor’s Wife）、《尊敬你的父亲》（Honor Thy Father）和《作家的生活》（A Writer’s Life）。他住在纽约市。

体育权威Gabriel Schechter写了五本书的作者，最近的一本是《洋基队历史上糟糕的一天》（This Bad Day in Yankees History）。

《雷弗，拳击60年的拳击赛和拳击手》

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Neil Leifer, Gay Talese, Gabriel Schechter

精装，36 x 38.7厘米，8.70公斤，424页

ISBN 9783836584951

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Neil Leifer has shot almost every importantboxing match for the last 60 years, from the first Patterson-Johansson fight in1959 right through to the 2020 Wilder-Fury rematch. With an introduction byfamed journalist Gay Talese, this collection presents hundreds of his finestphotos capturing all the brutality and grace inside the ring, as well as thepageantry of title fights, boxers, their promoters, and star-spangledentourages.

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NeilLeifer took his first important boxing photofrom a five-dollar seat at Yankee Stadium. The year was 1959 and Leifer, aged16, captured Floyd Patterson versus Ingemar Johansson in the ring in the centerof the stadium, dramatically floodlit and surrounded by mesmerized crowds. Thepicture was granular, shot from a distance with a $ 75 Yashica-Mat, “a poorman’s Rolleiflex,” but it had the unmistakable Leifer touch—powerful, nuanced,and adept at finding openings others would never see.

From that shot on, Leifer was in love withphotographing boxing. One year later, he covered the Patterson-Johanssonrematch, where Floyd Patterson regained the title. In 1961, as a credentialedshooter for Sports Illustrated working alongside idols Hy Peskin and JohnZimmerman, he shot their Miami Rubber Match—and one of his photographs wasfeatured as the magazine’s cover. By the age of 25, he had created the mostenduring images of Muhammad Ali, setting the spectacular tone for both his andAli’s careers. His 1965 and 1966 photographs of a triumphant Ali standing overSonny Liston and a bird’s-eye view of a knocked-out Cleveland Williams areconsidered two of the greatest sports photographs of all time.

The indubitable champion of the boxingphotography genre, Leifer has since shot almost every important fight of thelast 60 years. He was ringside at the “Rumble in the Jungle,” the “Thrilla inManila,” and “The Clash on the Dunes.” He saw the first matchup between JoeFrazier and Ali, both undefeated heavyweight champions, and Floyd Mayweatherraining dollar bills on Conor McGregor at the press tour for their 2017 fight.Nobody has seen the sport and its spectacle through more revealing eyes, fromblack-and-white images of the old Madison Square Garden to pay-per-view LasVegas pyrotechnics. In 2014, Leifer became the only photographer ever to beinducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

With hundreds of his finest photographs, anintroduction assembled from the best boxing columns of the era by famedjournalist Gay Talese, and incisive captions from sports writer GabrielSchechter, detailing the pageantry, personalities, and action inside the ring,Leifer. Boxing. 60 Years of Fights and Fighters is the culmination of Leifer’sunprecedented achievement, his lasting legacy to the sport he loves.

This tribute to the sweet science isfinished with a ChromaLuxe aluminum cover, a red faux leather spine—in an odeto the boxing glove—and packaged in a custom, cloth covered slipcase.

Collector’sEdition of 1,000 numbered copies, each signed by Neil Leifer

Thephotographer

Native New Yorker Neil Leifer beganphotographing sports events as a teenager. Over 160 of his pictures haveappeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated and over 40 of his photographs havegraced the cover of Time. He has published 17 books, and was one of twoprincipal photographers in TASCHEN’s tribute to Muhammad Ali, GOAT—Greatest OfAll Time and the illustrated edition of Norman Mailer’s The Fight.

Thecontributing authors

Gay Talese joined the staff of The New YorkTimes in 1955 and remained there for a decade. During the 1960s and 1970s hecontributed many articles to magazines, principally Esquire. Talese is thebest-selling author of eleven books including Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Honor ThyFather, and A Writer’s Life. He lives in New York City.

Sports authority Gabriel Schechter, is theauthor of five books, most recently This Bad Day in Yankees History.

NeilLeifer. Boxing. 60 Years of Fights and Fighters

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Neil Leifer, Gay Talese, GabrielSchechter

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