January 20, 2012
Photographers pose with their most famous photographs
Tim Mantoani took photographs of famous photographers holding their most iconic images:
The Tank Man of Tienanmen Square. Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston in victory. The portrait of the Afghan Girl on the cover of National Geographic. Many of us can automatically recall these photos in our heads, but far fewer can name the photographers who took them. Even fewer know what those photographers look like.
Tim Mantoani hopes to change that by taking portraits of famous photographers holding their most iconic or favorite photos in his new book Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends. Mantoani has shot over 150 of these portraits in the last five years, most of which are contained in the book.
The photograph above is Neil Leifer holding his photo of Ali and Liston taken on May 25, 1965.
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