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Meet the Unsung New York Photographer Who Has Seen It All

By Alexandra Genova

World Press Photo 2017: The Best Sports Images

By Alexandra Genova

Al Bello Has Been Photographing Sports for the Last 26 Years. And He's Just Getting Started

By Josh Raab

Seeking the Decisive Moment in Sports Photography

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Behind the Cover: Photographing Super Mario

Levon Biss photographed soccer star Mario Balotelli for this week's cover of TIME International.

By Alissa Ambrose

At the Fights: How Howard Schatz Gets His Best Boxing Shots

In his six-year journey to comprehensively capture the world of professional boxing, Howard Schatz experimented with flash, lighting, shutter speed—and even threw water, salt and powder on the athletes—to create the stroboscopic effect in his latest images.

By Feifei Sun

Big Shots: Photography at 'The Sports Show'

Can you really mount a worthwhile retrospective of sports photography without some of the most iconic athletes and moments? Turns out you can. In fact, "The Sports Show," a photography and new-media exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, is better off for it.

By Sean Gregory

The Golden Age of Baseball: Photographs by Charles M. Conlon

As the Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals face off in the first game of the World Series Wed. evening, TIME looks back at images of America's favorite pastime.

By Sean Gregory

The 2011 Stanley Cup Finals: A View from Sports Illustrated

The morning after the seventh and final game of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals, LightBox spoke with Sports Illustrated about photographing championship hockey and editing on deadline.

By Vaughn Wallace

What Makes a Great Basketball Picture? A View of the NBA Finals from Sports Illustrated

What makes a great basketball picture? A view of the NBA Finals from Sports Illustrated photo editor Marguerite Schropp Lucarelli.

By Nicholas Hegel McClelland
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