Our Family owned official HY PESKIN website (launched on December 2010) is dedicated to the photographic Art of Hy Peskin. Our goal is to showcase Peskin photography and to give the legacy and legend of Hy Peskin eternal life by sharing it with the world.

Hy Peskin the "sportographer"� was the first photographer hired by Sports Illustrated when it launched as a premier sports magazine. He, Peskin shot the first action, color photograph, had 42 covers and accomplished 634 assignments for SI and more for the Saturday Evening Post, This Week, Time, Sports, Colliers, etc. Some of his photos were chosen to be among the best sports photographs of the 20th Century.

Peskin was also famous as a photojournalist with covers in Life, Look, This Week, Playboy, Saturday Evening Post and more, including The Memorable Kennedy Collection, a notable part of history and respected worldwide.

On our site, pictures of that historic 4th of July weekend that contributed to the fascination and folklore of the JFK era, these pictures, was the first time there was an up close at the personal life and love affair of a politician who subsequently became the President. The world fell in love with this Royal Family who manifested the American Dream at that dramatic time of change in our history. Hy Peskin captured the very essence of the moment and the fairy tale like story that went along with it. From that point, politics took on a new image with an up close and personal look at the Presidential Candidate.

It was not known that Peskin adored Fine Art as much as Sport and that led him to create a new distinguished genre of artistic sportography, further more, in between his busy schedule on assignments Hy took incredible pictures of pure Art and beauty.

In 1966 Peskin laid aside his phenomenal reputation as a photographer for the sake of philanthropy and formed the Academy of Achievement, thus never bringing to light and life his independent work as an artist. To learn more about a truly great man who lived two incredible and unusual lives in one lifetime please see our Bio page.

The collection is divided into different Galleries according to the diverse nature of Hy Peskin's work. It shows some never before seen artistic work of Hy Peskin and many of the sports photographs that he was so respected for.

Now for the first time after more then half a century, exclusively here in the Hy Peskin official website, you can be enjoy all facades of this enigmatic and eccentric photographer and experience Hy's work in its fullest form. You will find his photography astonishing and extraordinary.

Every photograph offers an opportunity to obtain a piece of Art and History as captured by one of the most talented and charismatic photographers of the century. The collection cannot be found anywhere else and the number of images and editions is limited.

We offer the highest quality prints in honor of the legacy of an artist who was a perfectionist. Please note that the digital images that appear on this website are low resolution and intended for reference only. The actual prints are sharper and printed only in the highest quality.

Every image is approved by the Peskin estate and is guaranteed an original and authentic Hy Peskin photograph. We take great pride in presenting the images and ensuring that the prints are of the highest quality.

The sports collection features some of the most famous Hy Peskin sportographs from the 40's, 50's and 60's of the last century. The sports collection represents a cross section of time, history and events in a variety of sports including baseball, football, basketball, golf, boxing and many more. The sports photographs of Hy Peskin are like a walk through the history annuals of sport. Beside the extent of his work, no one has ever captured movement and emotion of the moment in sports like Hy Peskin.

Among the most famous sports photograph are the Ben Hogan taking a 1 iron to the green at the 72nd hole of the 1950 US Open and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field that helped make the Dodgers famous and helped establish Hy's reputation as a one-of-a-kind photographer. His other baseball pictures featured many of the baseball greats of that era including Jackie Robinson, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Hank Aaron and many more.

Hy Peskin's techniques of speed and timing with the camera, and his positions and proximity to the event according to his 'almost in the scene'� approach, was exemplified at boxing matches. One of his pictures of Carmen Basillio with his face swollen and eyes puffy was the inspiration for a similar scene in Sylvester Stallone's movie Rocky.

We offer reproductions of the photos at reasonable prices, on museum-quality, archival fine art Hahnemle Fine Art Paper. This smooth, matte, bright-white paper is a 100-percent cotton, 310 gr/m2, acid-free rag. This Hahnemle paper provides long-term image stability, delivers masterful color matching, vivid colors, and rich blacks for exceptional contrast, excellent durability and outstanding fade-resistance for more than 200 years with our pigmented inks.

The shop
Here you can buy old or rare photos, original signed prints and a variety of our merchandise with Hy Peskin's selected photos.

Licensing
We are licensing our sportography for commercial and editorial uses to continue the exposure for the work of Hy Peskin. The Fine Art collection is only available for editorial licensing. For info please contact us with the exact details of your institute and the intended use.