Neil Leifer Baseball. Ballet in the Dirt
Company: TASCHEN America LLC
Date: August 29, 2008
Contact: Christa Carr
Ballet in the Dirt
The golden age of America’s favorite pastime
"Neil's book has some of the greatest photos you'll ever see, even if you've seen them before." - Yogi Berra
This superb collection of 60s and 70s baseball images commemorates the sport's finest moments via the lens of legendary sports photographer Neil Leifer
Professional baseball of the 1960s and ’70s decades belongs to Neil Leifer, the premier sports photographer of his generation. In 1960, at age 17, Neil had the human drive to match his new Nikon motor drive and he was on his way. With gumption and an eye for the decisive moment, the baby-faced kid from Manhattan’s lower east side was soon selling his photos to Sports Illustrated. This superb collection of images reflects the total access Neil had to the players on the ball field, in the dugout, and in the locker room. All the pathos, elation, disappointment, and celebration are etched upon the faces of the players and their mercurial fans.
From the 1960 World Series between the Yankees and the Pirates—decided in the 9th inning of the 7th game by a Bill Mazeroski home run—to the 1977 Series between the Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers, Neil Leifer never stopped shooting. He was up in the nosebleed section of the grandstands in Yankee Stadium, in the rafters of the Astrodome in Houston, or a helicopter high above. Who won the games wasn’t important—only how the game was played. The blood, sweat, and grace. It’s all about the game, and Leifer’s photographs create a topographical map to the very heart and soul of baseball.
Featuring over 300 photos, the book is divided into four chapters: The Game; the Heroes—like Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, and pitcher Sandy Koufax; the Rivalry (infamously, between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox and the Giants and Dodgers); and the World Series championship.
*This unlimited popular edition is for readers on a budget or who were unable to get their hands on the original limited Collector's Edition*
About the artist:
By 1960, at age 17, native New Yorker Neil Leifer, had his first pictures published in Sports Illustrated and he was on his way. He went on to create over 200 covers for SI, Time and People; and photographed 15 Olympic Games, 4 World Cups, 17 Kentucky Derbies, 15 Masters Tournaments, countless World Series, the first 12 Super Bowls, and every major heavyweight championship title boxing match since Floyd Patterson fought Ingemar Johansson in 1960, as well as Muhammad Ali's entire career. Today he produces and directs films, in addition to the occasional photo shoot.
About the editor:
Eric Kroll edited several titles for TASCHEN including Natacha Merritt’s Digital Diaries and The Wonderful World of Bill Ward. His photography was the subject of TASCHEN’s Fetish Girls and Beauty Parade.
About the contributing authors:
Gabriel Schechter, a lifelong sports fanatic who idolized Willie Mays, Johnny Unitas, and Oscar Robertson, is a research associate at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He is the author of four books, including This Bad Day in Yankees History.
Writer/director Ron Shelton played second base in the Baltimore farm system for five years before making films including Bull Durham, White Men Can’t Jump, and Cobb. He is currently working on Our Lady of the Ballpark, a film about the Mexican Leagues.
Facts New!
Neil Leifer, Baseball - Ballet in the Dirt
Kroll, Eric (ED)
Leifer, Neil / Shelton, Ron / Schechter, Gabriel / Leifer, Neil
Hardcover 31 x 25.7 cm, 296 pages, $ 39.99
ISBN: 978-3-8228-4550-9
Multilingual Edition: German, French, English
Buy at Amazon
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Videos
Events (2 items)Book Presentation
Neil Leifer at TASCHEN Store New York for the book signing of the new trade edition of Baseball: Ballet in the Dirt
September 19, 2008
107 Greene Street, New York NY 10012, United States
See all (2 items)
Reviews (1 items)"Le photographe américain culte Neil Leifer publie une anthologie collector du base-ball. (…) Au fil des pages, on découvre des images sublimes du jeu: pirouettes vertigineuses, collisions violentes et chutes dans la terre mais aussi les coulisses de ce sport roi à travers des clichés presque volés, dans les vestiaires et les tranchées. Déjà culte, Ballet in The Dirt est un véritable objet d’art, uniquement disponible en édition limitée à 1000 exemplaires, signée et numérotée par Leifer."
Sport&Style/L’Equipe, Paris, France
Clippings (1 items)It's in the Bag
Smithsonian Magazine, United States, July 01, 2008
Download Clipping (PDF, 0.62 MB)
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Guts & Glory: Golden Age of American Football, Art Ed. Ameche
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Date: August 29, 2008
Contact: Christa Carr
Ballet in the Dirt
The golden age of America’s favorite pastime
"Neil's book has some of the greatest photos you'll ever see, even if you've seen them before." - Yogi Berra
This superb collection of 60s and 70s baseball images commemorates the sport's finest moments via the lens of legendary sports photographer Neil Leifer
Professional baseball of the 1960s and ’70s decades belongs to Neil Leifer, the premier sports photographer of his generation. In 1960, at age 17, Neil had the human drive to match his new Nikon motor drive and he was on his way. With gumption and an eye for the decisive moment, the baby-faced kid from Manhattan’s lower east side was soon selling his photos to Sports Illustrated. This superb collection of images reflects the total access Neil had to the players on the ball field, in the dugout, and in the locker room. All the pathos, elation, disappointment, and celebration are etched upon the faces of the players and their mercurial fans.
From the 1960 World Series between the Yankees and the Pirates—decided in the 9th inning of the 7th game by a Bill Mazeroski home run—to the 1977 Series between the Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers, Neil Leifer never stopped shooting. He was up in the nosebleed section of the grandstands in Yankee Stadium, in the rafters of the Astrodome in Houston, or a helicopter high above. Who won the games wasn’t important—only how the game was played. The blood, sweat, and grace. It’s all about the game, and Leifer’s photographs create a topographical map to the very heart and soul of baseball.
Featuring over 300 photos, the book is divided into four chapters: The Game; the Heroes—like Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, and pitcher Sandy Koufax; the Rivalry (infamously, between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox and the Giants and Dodgers); and the World Series championship.
*This unlimited popular edition is for readers on a budget or who were unable to get their hands on the original limited Collector's Edition*
About the artist:
By 1960, at age 17, native New Yorker Neil Leifer, had his first pictures published in Sports Illustrated and he was on his way. He went on to create over 200 covers for SI, Time and People; and photographed 15 Olympic Games, 4 World Cups, 17 Kentucky Derbies, 15 Masters Tournaments, countless World Series, the first 12 Super Bowls, and every major heavyweight championship title boxing match since Floyd Patterson fought Ingemar Johansson in 1960, as well as Muhammad Ali's entire career. Today he produces and directs films, in addition to the occasional photo shoot.
About the editor:
Eric Kroll edited several titles for TASCHEN including Natacha Merritt’s Digital Diaries and The Wonderful World of Bill Ward. His photography was the subject of TASCHEN’s Fetish Girls and Beauty Parade.
About the contributing authors:
Gabriel Schechter, a lifelong sports fanatic who idolized Willie Mays, Johnny Unitas, and Oscar Robertson, is a research associate at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He is the author of four books, including This Bad Day in Yankees History.
Writer/director Ron Shelton played second base in the Baltimore farm system for five years before making films including Bull Durham, White Men Can’t Jump, and Cobb. He is currently working on Our Lady of the Ballpark, a film about the Mexican Leagues.
Facts New!
Neil Leifer, Baseball - Ballet in the Dirt
Kroll, Eric (ED)
Leifer, Neil / Shelton, Ron / Schechter, Gabriel / Leifer, Neil
Hardcover 31 x 25.7 cm, 296 pages, $ 39.99
ISBN: 978-3-8228-4550-9
Multilingual Edition: German, French, English
Buy at Amazon
Audio
Videos
Events (2 items)Book Presentation
Neil Leifer at TASCHEN Store New York for the book signing of the new trade edition of Baseball: Ballet in the Dirt
September 19, 2008
107 Greene Street, New York NY 10012, United States
See all (2 items)
Reviews (1 items)"Le photographe américain culte Neil Leifer publie une anthologie collector du base-ball. (…) Au fil des pages, on découvre des images sublimes du jeu: pirouettes vertigineuses, collisions violentes et chutes dans la terre mais aussi les coulisses de ce sport roi à travers des clichés presque volés, dans les vestiaires et les tranchées. Déjà culte, Ballet in The Dirt est un véritable objet d’art, uniquement disponible en édition limitée à 1000 exemplaires, signée et numérotée par Leifer."
Sport&Style/L’Equipe, Paris, France
Clippings (1 items)It's in the Bag
Smithsonian Magazine, United States, July 01, 2008
Download Clipping (PDF, 0.62 MB)
Related (0 items)
See also (5 items) GOAT. Collector's Edition
A Tribute to Muhammad Ali. Limited to 9,000 individually numbered copies, each one signed by Muhammad Ali and Jeff Koons.
Guts & Glory: Golden Age of American Football, Art Ed. Unitas
The best of sports photographer Neil Leifer's 10,000 rolls of football pictures, including hundreds of rare and unpublished images. Presented in a custom slipcase and limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the artist, this Art Edition comes with one of two chromogenic prints: Johnny Unitas, 1964 (15 x 12 in.).
Guts & Glory: Golden Age of American Football, Art Ed. Ameche
The best of sports photographer Neil Leifer's 10,000 rolls of football pictures, including hundreds of rare and unpublished images. Presented in a custom slipcase and limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the artist, this Art Edition comes with one of two chromogenic prints: Alan Ameche, 1958 (15 x 12 in.).
See all (5 items)
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Neil Leifer, Baseball - Ballet in the Dirt
Hardcover, slipcase, 39.6 x 33 cm (15.6 x 13 in.), 302 pages
$ 700.00
$ 700.00
This superb collection of 60s and 70s baseball images reflects the total access Leifer had to the players on the ball field, in the dugout, and in the locker room. Limited to 1,000 copies, each numbered and signed by the photographer.
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