Hyman “Hy” Peskin (November 5, 1915 – June 2, 2005) was an American photographer known for several famous photographs of American sports people and celebrities published by Sports Illustrated and Life. He was a pioneer of sports photography, with his work being ranked amongst the best sports photojournalism of the 20th century. In 1966 he changed his name to Brian Blaine Reynolds, and founded the Academy of Achievement, bringing young people together with statesmen and Nobel Prize winners.
Table of Contents
- 1 Early life
- 2 Death
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Early life
Peskin was born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, where his daddy Elias Peskowitz was a tailor who at a loose end his job in the Depression, the family being saved by Hy’s first job as a newspaper seller.
Peskin became a newspaper journalist at the New York Daily Mirror after it started up in 1924, but soon became a photographer because it paid a vanguard salary.
Sports photographers would be in from the press box, limiting the pictures they could take. Peskin was the first sports photographer to lid the achievement from the sideline or climb up on the roof to gain more appealing shots. In his in the future days, he was known for the photographs he took of the Brooklyn Dodgers from Ebbets Field. Peskin often said “I helped make the Dodgers well-known and they helped make me”.
After serving in the Marines during World War II, he wanted to Begin work as a magazine photographer using color. He applied for positions similar to 20 magazines but only Look showed any interest. It offered him a job after showing the photo editor pictures of a boxing go along with he had taken showing the blood upon one boxer’s face.
Peskin was the first staff photographer hired by Sports Illustrated. “The number of famous pictures that he made here is astonishing,” Steve Fine, the director of photography at Sports Illustrated told The New York Times. His portray of Ben Hogan playing a 1-iron shot to the green at the 72nd hole of the 1950 US Open was ranked by Sports Illustrated as one of the greatest sports photographs of the twentieth century. “Instead of following every other shooter to the green, Hy hung incite and took his shot from behind Hogan,” recalled longtime Sports Illustrated photographer Neil Leifer in an essay in the magazine. “You don’t even see Hogan’s face, yet it’s anything there: that perfect swing, his signature cap, the crowd. It’s one of the most iconic sports photos ever taken, and Hy got it upon one of the most important swings of Hogan’s career. That was Hy: always defining an epic moment once an epic picture.
Another of Peskin’s photographs is said to have inspired the set design for the film “Rocky”: boxer Carmen Basilio leaping into the arms of his cornermen after knocking out Tony DeMarco in their 1955 welterweight title fight. The black-and-white image walked “the line amid reportage and film noir,” according to Sports Illustrated.
In 1953, Peskin shot a Life cover and photographic feature of Senator John F. Kennedy and his fiancé Jacqueline Bouvier. These photos helped to make known Kennedy as a national figure and were Peskin’s personal favorites.
During his career as a sports photographer, Peskin had 40 of his photographs appear on the front lid of Sports Illustrated. He done his career upon an unfortunate note when profound problems designed that he approximately took no photographs at the first title fight between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston in upfront 1964.
Academy of Achievement
In the further on 1960s, Peskin became excited in new ventures and helped organize the World Series of Sports Fishing subsequently Ted Williams. That year, he then launched the first addition of what became the Academy of Achievement, a non-profit management that brings leaders from various fields together with “young achievers” to inspire them to succeed. Under Peskin’s leadership, the Academy attracted such prominent people as Elizabeth Taylor, Elie Wiesel, Linus Pauling, Johnny Cash and Willie Mays, among dozens of others—to receive awards and chat with summit high school students. The Academy of Achievement is now notify his son, Wayne Reynolds.
By 1964, believing his Jewish broadcast to be a responsibility in fundraising, Peskin legally became known as Brian Blaine Reynolds—using the center names of his three sons.
Death
Peskin died in Herzliyya, Israel in 2005 of complex errors stirring during kidney dialysis. He was survived by his second wife, Adriana Reynolds of Plano, Tex., and Herzliya, Israel; two sons from that marriage, Brian Jeremy Reynolds and Preston Blaine Reynolds, both of Herzliya and Plano; three sons from his first marriage, Evan Reynolds of McKinney, Tex., Ron Reynolds of San Marcos, Calif., and Wayne Reynolds of McLean, Va.; and a granddaughter.
Last update 2021-08-06