Neil Leifer (New York, NY), Filmmaker and former Sports Illustrated, Time and LIFE Photographer. Neil Leifer’s photography career has spanned over 60 years. Beginning in 1960, his pictures regularly appeared in every major national magazine, including the Saturday Evening Post, Look, LIFE, Newsweek, and, most often, Sports Illustrated and Time. His photographs have appeared on over 200 Sports Illustrated, Time, and People covers.

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. In June 2014 he was inducted, along with legendary boxing champions Felix Trinidad and Oscar De La Hoya, into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, becoming the first photographer to ever be elected to a professional sports hall of fame.

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