Hundreds of photos that were previously part of famous photographer Neil Leifer's private collection went on sale at Guernsey's auction house in New York.
Diane Keaton and Woody Allen during the filming of Manhattan.
Photo taken during the filming of Seinfield; Jerry Seinfield is in the driver's seat. 1998.
V-J Day in Times Square. Photo made by Alfred Eisenstaedt on August 14, 1945.
Marylin Monroe, 1961.
legendary picture taken on November 14, 1966 when Mohammed Ali successfully defended his champion's title for the seventh time in a match against Cleveland 'Big Cat' Williams.
Neil Leifer smokes cigar with Fidel Castro. 1984.
Unkown Rebel - photo of a lone man who for almost half an hour managed to stall a tank columnt during the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. 1989.
Photo of Jamie Wyeth creating a painting of Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1977. Photo by Fred McDarrah.
One Man and His Dogs. Photo by Elliot Erwitt, 2000.
Reaching Out - a wounded marine reaches out to his comrade after a firefight in Vietnam, 1966. Photo by Larry Burrows.
Elvis Presley, 1956. Photo by Alfred Wertheimer.
Chinese basketball player Sui Feifei. Photo by Mark Zibert.
Aerial view of US Marine F-18 Hornet fighters while flying over burning oil fields during the Gulf War, 1991.
Photo of Mohammed Ali standing over the defeated Sonny Liston. 1965.
John Glenn, the first US austronaut to orbit the Earth. 1998.
Senator John Kennedy with his fiance Jackie. 1953.
Bill Epprige's photo of the dying Robert F. Kennedy. June 6, 1968.
Director George Lucas. 1980.
Five US presidents are seen at the opening of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in 1991. From left are US Presidents George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon. The photo was taken by David Hume Kennerly.
Terry O'Neill took this photo of legendary rock star David Bowie in 1974.
American swimmer Mark Spitz won seven gold medals in the 1972 Olympics. This portrait "was just meant to be a fun picture, and it turned out to be one that really is pretty special," Leifer said.
Vincent Laforet took this aerial shot of ice skaters in 2004.
Bill Luster took this photo of a stripper with three older women in 1986.
Actor Bill Murray wears a Chicago Cubs uniform in this Ken Regan photo from 1996. Regan's inscription is a reference to Leifer's short film "The Great White Hype".
US President Bill Clinton is photographed by P.F. Bentley as he spends one of his final moments in the White House Oval Office in 2001.
A leopard and a baboon face off in this shot from John Dominis' 1966 photo essay on the cats of Africa.
