Magnum Print Bundle: Muhammad Ali Framing:Custom Black Frame

Magnum Print Bundle: Muhammad Ali Framing:Custom Black FrameIn 1966, when Thomas Hoepker was a young staff photographer at STERN magazine, he was asked to cover a fight in London with the then heavyweight champion of the world, Muhammad Ali. After documenting him for a few days there, Hoepker persuaded his editor that the story was bigger and followed Ali to Chicago, where this iconic image of his world famous fist was taken. Over the course of a decade, Hoepker was given the opportunity to photograph Ali

From 1939 to 1947

hovering above neatly folded towels

the disciplines and contradictions of their religion

and the heroic Selma March that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965

I want to show the relationship of intimate space to personal life experience

Traumatized by his years of war reporting

“I’ve taken many pictures on that subject in the natural course of my favourite pastime…photography

Drawn to the girls

which ended in violence and arrests

From a young age

A Magnum photographer for over fifty years

Spending four years visiting the Sioux