Neil Leifer - Leifer's Photography Books

Leifer's Photography Books

Leifer has published sixteen books - among them his best selling 1978 Abrams coffee table book, Sports, a collection of sports photographs, the first of its kind. In 1985, Doubleday published Neil Leifer's Sports Stars. 1992 saw the publication of three new coffee table books: Muhammad Ali - Memories, published by Rizzoli, Safari, a collection of Africa animal pictures published by Reader's Digest, and a new collection of sports pictures, Sports, published by Collins. In September 2001 The Best of Leifer was published by Abbeville Press. The book is a retrospective of Leifer's 40 years as a photojournalist and showcases the best of his sports and non-sports photographs. Leifer's eleventh book, Neil Leifer: Portraits with an introduction by Tom Brokaw was published by St. Ann’s Press in November 2003. One of only two principal photographers in the TASCHEN $3,000, 75 pound/800 page book on Muhammad Ali’s life entitled GOAT. In September 2006 Abbeville Press published A Year in Sports, a 348-page coffee table book with an introduction by Frank Deford. In November 2007, TASCHEN published Neil Leifer, Ballet in the Dirt: The Golden Age of Baseball, with an introduction by Ron Shelton. The book is a collection of Leifer’s baseball photographs of the 1960s and 1970s, the “Golden Age of Baseball”. In November 2008, TASCHEN published Guts and Glory: The Golden Age of American Football 1958-1978, with an introduction by the late Los Angeles Times Sports columnist Jim Murray. The book is a collection of Leifer’s football photographs of the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.