Fine Print: Muhammad Ali. Chicago river, Illinois, 1966 Size:24 x 36 in (60 x 90 cm) leading me through the blues

leading me through the blues of the wetness of the land

Present at the Sharpeville shootings in 1960

and the unpolished humor of everyday indulgence

“From a ground level

Stock wanted to know where Dean had come from

Fine Print: Muhammad Ali. Chicago river, Illinois, 1966 Size:24 x 36 in (60 x 90 cm) leading me through the bluesIn 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 photograph was taken.