Word: leifer
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...Coast Guard and White House, plus the states of New York and New Jersey. The planning paid off. From the New Jersey side of the harbor, Ted Thai, who immigrated to the U.S. from Viet Nam in 1973, snapped the four-page fireworks vista on Friday night. Photographer Neil Leifer was on Governors Island for the cover photo, taken after the torch- lighting ceremony Thursday. He caught the Operation Sail scene the following morning from a helicopter. A sea-land relay team rushed all the film from the harbor to the photo lab. Deputy Picture Editor Michele Stephenson, Assistant Picture...
Crucial to any wedding is the photographer who commemorates the moment, but the poor person's own face rarely shows up in a newlywed's album. When TIME . decided to do a story on the resurgence of the traditional formal wedding, Photographer Neil Leifer came up with a way to redress that injustice...
...Leifer has shot 27 covers for TIME on subjects ranging from prison life to America's love for cats. Most recently he photographed the heroic proportions of the U.S. aircraft carrier Carl Vinson by suspending a remote camera from the bow of the ship. Formal weddings are tame by those standards. The subject reminded Leifer of a Norman Rockwell illustration, so he took his camera somewhere it seldom goes -- to a portrait studio. He explained, "Roupen Agopian of the Bachrach studio let me photograph him photographing a young couple. I marveled that he took only 45 minutes to complete...
...Operations) Researchers: Dorothy Affa, Richard L. Boeth, Anne Callahan, MaryAnne Golon, Paula Hornak Kellner, Gary Roberts, Carol Saner, Nancy Smith- Alam, Robert B. Stevens, Mary Themo Photographers: Eddie Adams, Walter Bennett, William Campbell, Sahm Doherty, Michael Evans, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Ben Martin, Harry Mattison, Mark Meyer, Ralph Morse, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Stephen Northup, Bill Pierce, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
Ever struggling for the perfect angle, Neil Leifer has made sports photography something of a sport itself. So it may be a spirit of fraternity that lends dash to his portrait gallery of athletes in Neil Leifer's Sports Stars (Doubleday; 256 pages; $35). The longtime photographer for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and TIME does justice both to basketball's Nate Archibald airborne and to baseball's Casey Stengel in repose. He gets deep inside the tangles of the football field. And when he photographs Mary Lou Retton, he catches her in mid-bounce, all flags flying. Athletics were always like this...