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...part of the preview of the sights, sounds and statistics of the Los Angeles Summer Olympics that appeared in its July 30 issue, TIME presented closeups of several individual athletes, many little known outside their home countries and specialties. Nineteen athletes appeared in a Neil Leifer photo essay that showed each of them against a background of a national landmark. In addition, nine American athletes, participating in events like archery that normally attract scant U.S. public attention, were introduced. How did these competitors fare in the Olympics...
...countries (Britain, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya and the U.S.) whom TIME has photographed against one of their homeland's famous symbols or landmarks. This 14-page photo essay, with captions by Senior Writer Paul Gray, provides dazzling evidence of the artful eye of Photographer Neil Leifer, who also took the cover picture of U.S. Track and Field Star Carl Lewis at the Statue of Liberty. "Not only was this the best assignment I've ever had," says Leifer, "it was the best I've ever heard about." It was certainly one of the longest...
...however, was able to foresee some of the difficulties Leifer was to encounter. In England he found his first choice for a backdrop, Big Ben, sheathed in scaffolding. Result: the shoot underwent a fast change of locale to Windsor Castle. Scaffolding also loomed as a potential problem at the Statue of Liberty, which was scheduled to be shut down late last year for repair and refurbishing. Leifer quickly corralled the busy Carl Lewis and got him to pose last October in what was then the only prototype of the U.S. Olympic uniform. "The real difficulty," says Leifer, "was getting...
Included in the original assignment were three Communist countries, the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba, which have decided since May to sit out the Games. Leifer had the notion that Cuba's "landmark" was President Fidel Castro, who obligingly posed with the island's superheavyweight boxer, Teófilo Stevenson. Afterward, when Leifer asked Castro to autograph a picture from an earlier session, the President's arm was so sore from holding Stevenson's hand aloft in a victory salute that he could barely write. The arm was not too sore, however, to offer Leifer...
Picture coverage was coordinated by Photo Researchers Jerry Astor and Paula Hornak, who supervised Photographers Rudi Frey, Neil Leifer, Jim Drake and John lacono. Says Astor: "Fog, heavy snow and bad light made it a photographer's nightmare...