Darkroom Prints: Muhammad Ali Jumps, Chicago, 1966 Stuart Franklin Fine Prints

Darkroom Prints: Muhammad Ali Jumps, Chicago, 1966 Stuart Franklin Fine PrintsIn 1966, Thomas Hoepker and his second wife, journalist Eva Windmoeller, followed Muhammad Ali around Chicago as he prepared for an upcoming fight. Ali retained the heavyweight title in five fights that year notching three TKOs, one KO, and one unanimous decision. Hoepkers portrait of the fighter jumping atop a bridge on the Chicago River was spontaneous rather than pre planned, with Hoepker noting, That just happened. We were crossing and they said,

Jim considers it an assembled “family album” of his photographic encounters during the 9 years of this project and evidence of the existence of people who would otherwise be forgotten

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freshfound poor footing in the London photography scene

is one of many examples of how Halpern’s gaze captures beauty in the everyday and creates harmony in the contrasts of his surroundings

” Following the band across the U

Hurn witnessed the complete chaos that surrounded the Beatles

“It seemed like a good idea to do something on the English before my eyes got too jaded”

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focusing on ways of life that exist in a close relationship with nature

” Gilot said of the photographs Capa took of them at the time—Picasso playing in the sand on the beach with his son

both well-established and recently arrived

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