Knockout The Art of Boxing

by Regan, Ken; Neeson, Liam; Mailer, Norman; Schulberg, Budd; Ali, Muhammad

• ISBN13: 9781608874828
• ISBN10: 1608874826
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-09-06
• Publisher: Insight Editions

Summary

Ken Regan was a young photographer in 1964 when he covered Muhammad Ali’s first fight: his historic victory over Sonny Liston in Miami Beach. This began a lifelong love affair with the sport of boxing. For the next four decades, Regan chronicled the greatest fights and fighters of the age. His extraordinary photographs include many of the most enduring images ever created in the annals of boxing, as well as portraits of notable trainers, managers, promoters, writers, and the whole panoply of celebrities associated with the sport. Featuring some of the greatest ring action in boxing history, Knockout takes us from sparring sessions and press conferences to weigh-ins and post-fight sessions.

Knockout also features Regan’s stories and firsthand account of his photographic journey into the heart of boxing. Beginning with his early magazine work shooting prizefights, Regan developed close personal friendships with some of the greatest boxers and captured intimate moments of these fighters with their families at home and on the road. With numerous black-and-white and color images, many seen here for the first time, Knockout is one of the most celebrated books ever published on the subject of boxing.

Author Biography

Ken Regan was the founder of Camera 5, a photo agency known for its coverage of the biggest names in film, music, and politics for more than 40 years. Regan's work has been published in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, LIFE, and Paris Match.

Oscar-nominated actor Liam Neeson started boxing at the age of nine, taught by the local parish priests in his hometown of Ballymena, Ireland. In his teens he traveled around the country for the sport and held the title of Youth Heavyweight Champion of Ireland for three consecutive years. A lifelong fan, Neeson still works out with his punching bag four or five times a week.

Norman Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, filmmaker, actor, and political candidate. He wrote The Executioner’s Song and Armies of the Night, among many others books, and was the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes as well as the National Book Award.

Budd Schulberg was the author of the best-selling novels What Makes Sammy Run and The Harder They Fall as well as the Academy Award–winning screenplay for Marlon Brando’s On the Waterfront. The boxing editor for Sports Illustrated in the 1950s and 1960s, Schulberg was the first screen writer to be inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame.