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One of the pictures (below) from that shoot, showing Clay fully underwater with his fists raised, is one of the most famous pictures of Ali ever taken. But it didn't run in Life because the editors there thought it looked too posed. I was waiting behind the goal, hoping something might happen’: Lionel Messi carrying the World Cup last year. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

When Sports Illustrated assigned me a story about a young boxer, Cassius Clay, I had never heard of him. I showed him my underwater pictures of water-skiing to impress him that I had done a story for Life. I went to the motel where he was staying, and there he was in the swimming pool going through his workout. He was doing a hook and a jab, and I could see the bubbles. I said to him, 'That's fantastic because I see your fists going through the water, like my water-skiing pictures.' It was Bingham who spent time with Ali at his home in Louisville and Miami, and captured the shot of him in his Cadillac swamped by local children. It was Bingham who photographed him preaching in Nation of Islam attire. It was Bingham who was there with a camera when Ali ranted at the office of the state prosecutor in Houston in 1967. It was Bingham who documented his travels around Africa, creating the shot of Ali riding a camel beside the Great Pyramids. And it was also Bingham who secretly helped arrange for Ali to carry the Olympic flame at Atlanta in 1996. MacBook Pro 13.3" Retina, MacBook Air 13" Retina, MacBook Air 13.3"(2020, M1): 2560x1600 Dual monitor: Clay demonstrated by jumping into the pool at the hotel where he was staying (The Sir John Hotel) and started to throw punches in the water.Ali’s iconic status – and he is surely a man befitting of that word, iconic – is inextricably married to the photographs that exist of him. While his poetic tongue and rapid wit charmed us, and his poise and ruthlessness in the ring thrilled us, the imagery of him toned our appreciation of his personality, craft and beauty. Photographs are now among the defining symbols by which we remember him. Four years later, Leifer would receive an accolade from the Observer for another of his images, an aerial shot of Ali celebrating victory over Cleveland Williams in 1966. It was voted the best sports photograph ever taken, beating the Ali-Liston shot into second spot.

iPad 3, iPad 4, iPad Air, iPad Air 2, 2017 iPad, iPad Mini 2, iPad Mini 3, iPad Mini 4, 9.7" iPad Pro: 2048x1536, 1536x2048 What is the use of a desktop wallpaper? Well, adding a wallpaper to your desktop is not mandatory. In fact, you can decide to use a dark colour, and life will move on as usual. However, this element comes with a sense of beauty. They add glamor to your computer and make it look aesthetically appealing and highly presentable. Sometimes, people display their feelings through the use of desktop wallpapers. Interesting, huh? You can add an image that shows how you feel or one that means something to you. Adding a quote will act as a reminder of what inspires you in your day-to-day life. That said, desktop wallpapers cannot be ignored, they mean different things to different people. Yet, the idea for the striking picture wasn’t the photographer’s alone. Cassius Marcellus Clay, who later changed his name to Muhammad Ali in honor of his faith, had met the photographer Schulke the day prior. Sports Illustrated sent Flip Schulke to capture the young boxer who had, the year prior, taken Gold at the 1960 Olympic games. We were driving round in the limo one day and he said ‘let’s stop in this bakery, they have wonderful doughnuts’, which was totally against his diet as he was in training for a fight” says Hoepker. “Then a few hours later we were passing this little bakery again and he asks to go in again. That time I got a little suspicious, so I followed him in and found him flirting with the baker’s daughter.” The photograph captures Ali with his guard down, in a genuine sense. Only eight years later, when Hoepker went to meet Ali at his home did he discover that Ali and the baker’s daughter, Belinda, had eventually wed. However, for years no one questioned the claim about training underwater. It was simply accepted as part of the lore of Muhammad Ali. Until finally, around 1997, the photographer who did the photoshoot, Flip Schulke, revealed that Ali had invented the story.

The Story of the PhotoshootIn 1961, Sports Illustrated had assigned Schulke to take pictures of Clay. So Schulke traveled to Overtown, Florida where Clay was training. The pictures on my walls at home are not my photographs, they’re photographs of the great Life photographers over the years, with this one exception. It’s the only picture that has always been up on the walls in my home. I have a large print of it. It’s right in my living room.” Unexpectedly he adds: “I like to hang it as a diamond shape with Cleveland Williams at the top.” In the studio However, the editor also gave Schulke permission to pitch the idea to Life, saying, "Go ahead and ask Life if you want to. If they're dumb enough to, let them do it." If you ask any photographer ‘what’s your one favourite picture?’, which is an awfully hard question to answer for most people, in my case I have one – this one – and it has always been my favourite,” he says. “For my money it is the best picture I ever took in my life.

In one of Leifer’s less vaunted photographs, Ali can be seen arcing sideways at the hips to inspect himself in a shoulder-high mirror, captivated by his own image. You might wonder, then, to what extent Ali must treasure the photographs that have been taken of him.

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Flip Schulke (1930 - 2008) had the good fortune and good instincts necessary to be a great photojournalist.He also knew how to get a great shot of whatever iconic figure or event he was covering. He seemed to be every place that made important news in mid-century America. The Revolution in Cuba, the March on Washington, The last days of President Kennedy and the Texas Book Depository on that fateful November day, The Space program, and Martin Luther King are just some of the pivotal moments covered by his insightful reportage. EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article was originally published in the New York Amsterdam News on August 18, 2005

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