It all began with an art school photography assignment: Lori Grinker was shooting a project on young boxers under the guidance of the legendary trainer Cus D'Amato. Her main focus became a nine-year-old boxer Billy Hamm. While photographing him, Cus wandered over and asked why Lori was shooting that kid, when the bigger kid in the corner working a speed bag would one day be the heavyweight champion of the world The kid was a then 13-year-old Mike Tyson.
Lori's early boxing photographs of Mike Tyson are without peer--little exists from that era and all of Grinker's work is personal with...