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#1352 - Neil Leifer
Portrait of SF Giants center fielder Willie Mays before a game against the LA Dodgers at Candlestick Park, San Francisco CA. July 5th, 1962
“All you had to do was hang around him and magic would happen. He was naturally gregarious. He was like Ali in that respect, who I photographed alot. He loved the press”
~ Neil Leifer
“There have only been two geniuses in the world
Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare”~ Tallulah Bankhead
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#1303 - Marc Riboud
Highbury Stadium, England, 1954
“Photographs must be taken without an exchange of glances between the photographer and the subject. Without giving, without returning anything. I just shoot”
~ Marc Riboud
(1923-2016)ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
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#1043 - Danielle Weil
Man at bat [horizontal], 1990
“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.”
~ Bob Feller
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#975 - John Gutmann
Class (Olympic High Diving Champion Marjorie Gestring), 1936 (printed circa 1980)
"As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good picture is open to many individual (subjective) associations. I am usually pleased when a viewer finds interpretations that I myself had not been aware of."
~ John Gutmann
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#921 - Neil Leifer
President JFK and Vice-President Lyndon Johnson at Baseball Opener, ed. #25/150, 1961
“You can’t get away from the element of luck in sports photography, but what makes a great sports photographer is that when we get lucky we don’t miss it”
~Neil Leifer
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#861 - Bert Hardy
Sugar Ray Robinson, 1951
“To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will”
~ Sugar Ray Robinson
(1921-1989)“Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs”
~ Bert Hardy
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#853 - Terry O'Neill
Elton John, Dodger Stadium, 1975
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone work so hard in my life, be so dedicated to putting on a show that the crowd would remember for the rest of their lives. It’s hard to forget an event like that, whether you were on the stage or off. It was a once-in-a-lifetime thing”
~Terry O’Neill
(1938-2019)“John’s Saturday and Sunday appearances were indeed akin to a World Series for rock music fans. Not only is singer-composer-pianist, John, the biggest star in pop music, but his weekend concerts marked the first time a rock act had played Dodger Stadium - the city’s most prestigious and best designed outdoor athletic facility - since the Beatles in 1966. The audience response predictably was tumultuous at times”
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#832 - Harry Benson
Jackie, 1968
“Crowds of skiers were waiting to catch a glimpse of the elegant former First Lady who was on holiday with her children. You could tell it was her from a mile away, even in a ski mask with the signature sunglasses propped on her head. You could still see her eyes - those eyes like no others”
~ Harry Benson
(b. 1929)