Fine Print: Muhammad Ali posing for a studio photographer. Chicago river, Illinois, 1966 Size:24 x 36 in (60 x 90 cm) smoked and bloodied each other

smoked and bloodied each other up

Elizabeth Taylor and Katherine Hepburn

For me it was a spectacle for the camera

The movie was Taylor’s first job after the death of her third husband

Fine Print: Muhammad Ali posing for a studio photographer. Chicago river, Illinois, 1966 Size:24 x 36 in (60 x 90 cm) smoked and bloodied each otherIn 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.