Fine Print: Muhammad Ali. Chicago, Illinois, 1966 Limited Edition

Fine Print: Muhammad Ali. Chicago, Illinois, 1966 Limited EditionIn 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.

and some foreign television crews

Through a series of collaborative workshops

and a distant sign for a childhood favorite treat

the central lake on the grounds of the Summer Palace in Beijing

the girl seemed a Dresden figurine come alive

A little while later

The route is 1450km long

I realized that what actually inspired me was the interaction among its people

Gilden tells the story of these travels and the ties he maintains with Japan in a rare introductory text

and the photographs he took in Austria and in Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 have become Cold War icons

first hand testimonies and original art works from women in refuge

he became the first contract photographer for The Observer newspaper