Items Similar to Neil Leifer Guts and Glory: The Golden Age of American Football
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 10
Neil Leifer Guts and Glory: The Golden Age of American Football
About the Item
No pain, no gain.
The most memorable moments since the birth of pro football in America.
The best of sports photographer Neil Leifer’s 10,000 rolls of football pictures, including hundreds of previously unpublished images. Presented in a custom slipcase and limited to a total of 1,500 copies signed by the photographer, this Collector’s Edition is a companion to Neil Leifer’s instant sell-out success, Ballet in the Dirt: The Golden Age of Baseball, published by seller in 2007.
In 1958, sports photographer Neil Leifer took the picture that remains one of his most famous to this day. The day he got the shot - Alan Ameche’s game-winning "Sudden Death" touchdown - was Leifer’s 16th birthday. This game, called "The Greatest Ever Played," signaled football’s emergence as America’s new national pastime; formerly half-empty stadiums welcomed sold-out crowds seemingly overnight, while football surpassed pro baseball and college football in national television ratings. Starting then, on any given Sunday Leifer was most likely shooting a football game somewhere in America. His 1961 photo of legendary Giants quarterback Y.A. Tittle dropping back to pass landed Leifer his first cover for Sports Illustrated and cemented his close connection to the sport.
While best known for his iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali towering over a fallen Sonny Liston, and for the enormous diversity of subjects he covered in and out of the sports world, it is his football pictures Leifer considers his best. This collection represents the best of his best, culled from over 10,000 rolls of film on the sport, including hundreds of previously unpublished pictures. It’s impossible to conceive of Peyton Manning hovering over an impromptu wood fire on the sidelines during a blizzard, but Leifer captured Tittle’s Giants doing exactly that during the coldest game in his living memory (the 1962 Championship in New York, a game "far colder than the famous Ice Bowl"). From Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers dynasty to the Miami Dolphins’ perfect season in 1972 to the Minnesota Vikings’ terrifying Front Four - the "Purple People Eaters" - they’re all here.
Following an introduction assembled from the best football columns of the era by famed sports columnist Jim Murray, this collection is divided into four chapters: "On Any Sunday" is Leifer’s homage to the game."The Legends" includes heroes like Johnny Unitas, Jim Brown, Terry Bradshaw, Joe Namath, Dick Butkus, Frank Gifford, and "Mean" Joe Greene. "The Bosses" delves into the victories on and off the field of immortal coaches Vince Lombardi, John Madden, Tom Landry, Weeb Ewbank, and others. Finally,"The Big Game" traces major championship games from 1958 through Super Bowl XII. The indepth captions put the images into their historical context, making the book highly accessible and informative.
Also available: The Art Edition, limited to 200 copies, numbered and signed by Neil Leifer and accompanied by one of two chromogenic prints, numbered and signed below the image by the photographer.
The photographer:
Native New Yorker Neil Leifer began photographing sports events as a teenager. Over 160 of his pictures have appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated and over 40 of his photographs have graced the cover of Time. He has published 15 books, and was one of two principal photographers in Taschen’s tribute to Muhammad Ali, GOAT—Greatest Of All Time.
The contributing authors:
Jim Murray was a founding father of Sports Illustrated, and sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times for 37 years. Murray was inducted into Cooperstown’s Baseball Hall of Fame writers’ wing in 1988 and won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1990. He died in 1998.
Sports authority Gabriel Schechter, is the author of five books, most recently This Bad Day in Yankees History.
- Creator:
- Dimensions:Height: 13 in (33.02 cm)Width: 15.6 in (39.63 cm)Depth: 4 in (10.16 cm)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:2007
- Condition:Hardcover in slipcase, 15.6 x 13.0 in., 350 pages.
- Seller Location:Los Angeles, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU96811038072
Neil Leifer
Neil Leifer is an American photojournalist and filmmaker mostly known for his sports photographs, especially his dramatic photograph of the Mohammed Ali vs. Sonny Liston fight in Lewiston, Maine in 1965. His extensive career spans over five decades, and he has worked for such distinguished publications as Sports Illustrated, Time, Life and Newsweek. He has received the coveted Lucie Award for Achievement in Sports Photography and is included in a number of private and museum collections.
(Biography provided by PDNB Gallery)
About the Seller
4.8
Vetted Seller
These experienced sellers undergo a comprehensive evaluation by our team of in-house experts.
1stDibs seller since 2013
277 sales on 1stDibs
Typical response time: 1 to 2 days
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Los Angeles, CA
- Return PolicyThis item cannot be returned.
More From This SellerView All
- Neil Leifer, Boxing, 60 Years of Fights & Fighters, Limited Edition, Signed BookBy Neil LeiferLocated in Los Angeles, CACollector’s Edition of 1,000 numbered copies, each signed by Neil Leifer. ChromaLuxe aluminum hardcover in slipcase, 14.2 x 15.2 in., 24.84 lb, 424 pages. Neil Leifer has shot al...Category
2010s Books
MaterialsAluminum
- Manly P Hall, the Secret Teachings of All Ages, First Edition Book & 4 PrintsBy TASCHENLocated in Los Angeles, CAThe classic encyclopedia of the arcane in an expanded edition. Renowned philosopher and lecturer Manly P. Hall’s masterful encyclopedia of ancient symbols, hidden rituals, and arcane practices has remained a classic since first published in 1928. Hall’s densely detailed writings explore topics ranging from Hermeticism to Tarot, Egyptian mythology to Pythagorean theory. Each chapter is accompanied by the vivid illustrations of artist J. Augustus Knapp, with additional images by Mihran Serailian found in the companion volume, each taking their own unique approach to nearly 60 artworks depicting occult subject matter. The initial concept for what became known as Hall’s “Great Book”, first began in 1923 when the young Los Angeles-based orator began a months-long trip around the globe. Circumnavigating by ship, Hall visited Egypt, China and India, immersing himself in the philosophical and religious history of each country. Upon his return he spent the next five years penning his massive compendium of philosophy and myth. Nearly a century after its release, this iconic masterwork has been reproduced for the first time from the rare and extravagant original edition. This meticulously-restored version of Hall’s “Great Book” is also accompanied by an expansive companion book, featuring condensed summaries of each chapter of The Secret Teachings, alongside newly-discovered artworks, rare photography...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Books
MaterialsFoil
- Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll. Limited Edition, Signed BookBy Alfred Wertheimer, TASCHENLocated in Los Angeles, CA“Elvis who?” was photographer Alfred Wertheimer’s response when, in early 1956, an RCA Victor publicist asked him to photograph an up-and-coming crooner from Memphis. Little did Wertheimer know that this would be the job of his life: just 21 years old, Elvis Presley was—as we now know—about to become a legend. Trailing him like a shadow, Wertheimer was given unlimited Scope to get up close and personal with Elvis; even as the singer was seducing young women in dark hallways, he allowed the photographer to record his every move. Wertheimer took nearly 3,000 photographs of Presley that year, creating a penetrating portrait of a man poised on the brink of superstardom. Extraordinary in its intimacy and unparalleled in its Scope, Wertheimer’s Elvis project immortalized a young man in the very process of making history. (Just a month after he shot Elvis recording the “Don’t Be Cruel”/“Hound Dog” record, it became the first ever to top all three Billboard charts.) This Collector’s Edition of just 1,706 numbered copies signed by Wertheimer brings together his most remarkable Elvis shots from 1956, along with a selection of his historic 1958 pictures of the star being shipped off to an army base in Germany. Though many of Wertheimer’s photos of Elvis are among the best known, nearly half of the photographs in this book have never been published before. Each chapter is illustrated with an original poster created for this book by Hatch Show Print, one of the oldest letterpress print shops in America. In business since 1879, Hatch printed posters for vaudeville, circuses, and entertainers on world tour in the early 20th century; and created many of the powerful woodblock images that helped define the look of country music in the 1940s and rock and roll (including many early Elvis posters...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Books
MaterialsPaper
- Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Art Edition "Me and My Shadow"By Ted Streshinsky, Lawrence Schiller, Tom WolfeLocated in Los Angeles, CAFiber-based gelatin silver print, 21.8 x 28.8 cm on 22.9 x 33 cm paper (8.6 x 11.8 in. on 9 x 13 in. paper); hardcover volume in a slipcase, letterpress-printed text, two different paper stocks, and tip-ins, 24 x 34 cm (9.4 x 13.4 in.), 356 pages. In 1964, famed writer Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters set off across America on a “Transcontinental Bus Tour,” headed for the New York World’s Fair. Kesey’s journey, in the company of his Merry Pranksters, lies at the heart of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, an as-if-first-hand account of the group’s antics and ethos by Tom Wolfe, wunderkind of the New Journalism movement. This Art Edition presents Wolfe’s era-defining text in letterpress, along with facsimile reproductions of his manuscript pages, ephemera of the period, and photographs of the acid scene by Lawrence Schiller and Ted Streshinsky. The accompanying print, Me and My Shadow, by Lawrence Schiller, was photographed at the Hollywood Acid Test on February 25, 1966. As the first photojournalist to capture the acid scene from the inside, Schiller began with a single contact in Berkeley, California, and built a large network of young, receptive subjects who allowed him to document their experiences with LSD starting in late 1965. At first, he was a fly on the wall as groups of friends tripped in the privacy of their homes. By early 1966 he had met the Merry Pranksters and was invited to the Acid Test in Hollywood. During the Test, Kool-Aid laced with a heavy dose of LSD was served up from an industrial-sized pot. Participants turned on the Grateful Dead’s music and tuned in to the burgeoning psychedelic scene. Schiller’s image of a tripster “freaking freely” with his own shadow—long believed to be Neal Cassady—appeared in Life magazine in March 1966 in a photo essay which served to introduce the nation to the sweeping new LSD epidemic. For Flaming Lips lead singer Wayne Coyne...Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Books
MaterialsPaper
- Frida Kahlo, The Complete Paintings, XL BookBy TASCHEN, Frida KahloLocated in Los Angeles, CAWe access the intimacy of Frida’s affections and passions through a selection of drawings, pages from her personal diary, letters, and an extensive illustrated biography featuring photos of Frida, Diego, and the Casa Azul, Frida’s home and the center of her universe. This large-format XXL book allows readers to admire Frida Kahlo’s paintings...Category
2010s European Books
MaterialsFabric, Paper
- Tom Wolfe, the Electric Kool-Aid Acid TestBy Ted Streshinsky, Lawrence Schiller, Tom WolfeLocated in Los Angeles, CAHardcover in a slipcase, letterpress-printed text, two different paper stocks, and tip-ins, 9.4 x 13.4 in., 356 pages. In 1964, famed writer Ken Kesey and...Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Books
MaterialsPaper
You May Also Like
- The Peoples of North America, the Japanese AmericansLocated in North Hollywood, CAThe peoples of North America, the Japanese Americans. Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Japanese, factors encouraging their emigra...Category
20th Century American Japonisme Books
MaterialsPaper
- Marion 'Mass' in the Golden Age by Judith Westlund Rosbe, 1st EdLocated in valatie, NYMarion (Mass) in the Golden Age by Judith Westlund Rosbe. The History Press 2009. 1st Ed paperback. In The Late Nineteenth Century, America's new railroads flooded Marion with extrav...Category
Early 2000s American Books
MaterialsPaper
- The Golden Book of Swinburne's LyricsLocated in Middletown, NYA beautiful Zaehnsdorf-bound collection of the poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 – 1909) whose works often handled Victorian taboos, such as lesbianism, sado-masochism, and ...Category
Early 20th Century English Books
MaterialsGold Leaf
- Glory of Baroque Dresden, the State Art Collections Dresden First EditionLocated in valatie, NYThe Glory of Baroque Dresden. The State Art Collections Dresden. The Mississippi Commission for International Cultural Exchange. Mississippi Art Pavilion, 2004. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. The book consists of more than 400 works from the State Art Collections Dresden and reflects Baroque art during the time of August the Strong and his son August III, electors of Saxony and kings of Poland. As the first major exhibition from Dresden presented in North America since the reunification of East and West Germany, The exhibition features paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Rubens and other Old Masters; Meissen Porcelain; jewel-encrusted ceremonial arms and armor; rare prints and drawings; sculpture and decorative arts; portraits; furniture; costumes and crowns; gold, silver and fabulous jewels, including the 41-carat Dresden Green...Category
Early 2000s American Books
MaterialsPaper
- Franco-American Textile with the Image of an Eagle Holding the American and FlagLocated in York County, PAFranco-American textile with the image of an eagle supporting knotted and draped american and French flags beneath four war planes; embroidered silk floss and metallic bullion thread...Category
Mid-20th Century American Political and Patriotic Memorabilia
MaterialsSilk
- Golden Age of Spanish Sculpture by Manuel Gómez Moreno, First EditionBy Manuel Gómez MorenoLocated in valatie, NYThe Golden Age of Spanish Sculpture by Manuel Gómez Moreno. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1964. First English edition hardcover with dust jacket. 63 pp. A beautiful, large for...Category
20th Century American Books
MaterialsPaper