13George Kalinsky

Photographer’s Forum, February 1989

The sports photographs and portraits of George Kalinsky (b. 1936) have appeared in Sports Illustrated, People, and Newsweek, and in the pages of many of the books and programs he produced for sports teams and events. For years he was the official photographer at Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall and for the New York Mets, and his iconic images of sports teams, boxers, presidents, rock stars, and numerous personalities and performers made him the go-to photographer for the sports and entertainment industry in New York for many years.

Among his most famous portraits are those of Frank Sinatra, Luciano Pavarotti, Muhammad Ali, as well as those of presidents and of Pope John Paul ...

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