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Muhammad Ali : fighter's heaven 1974
- Title
- Muhammad Ali : fighter's heaven 1974 / edited by Tony Nourmand ; photographs and text by Peter Angelo Simon ; foreword by D.A. Pennebaker.
- Author
- Simon, Peter Angelo
- Publication
- London, UK : Reel Art Press, an imprint of Rare Art Press Ltd., 2016.
- ©2016
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- Description
- 173 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
- Summary
- In October 1974, Muhammad Ali attempted to regain the world heavyweight boxing championship title that was stripped from him when he refused the Vietnam draft seven years earlier. He faced the brutal, undefeated George Foreman in Zaire, Africa, the fight he had dubbed "The Rumble in The Jungle." Only weeks before, on August 11-12, photographer Peter Angelo Simon was invited to experience the private world of one of the most famous people on the planet as he prepared mentally and physically for the biggest challenge of his life. This two-day photo-essay includes many previously unpublished photographs and captures Ali the man, unguarded, away from the glare of the media spotlight at his Pennsylvania sanctuary. It includes a foreword by D.A. Pennebaker, the foremost chronicler of American counterculture in the 1960s, and an introduction by Peter Angelo Simon, who writes: "I shot 33 rolls in the two days. Ali said nobody had ever taken so many pictures of him. I believe these photographs reveal aspects of Ali's fascinating character not previously seen." Few photographers got as close to the boxer behind the legend. This extraordinary book reveals the preparation for a seminal moment in cultural and political history.
- Alternative Title
- Muhammad Ali fighter's heaven 1974
- Subject
- Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016 > Pictorial works
- Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016
- Boxers (Sports) > United States > Portraits > Pictorial works
- African American boxers > Pictorial works
- Documentary photography
- Portrait photography
- documentary photography
- African American boxers
- Boxers (Sports)
- Photography, Artistic
- United States
- Genre/Form
- photobooks.
- Pictorial works.
- Photobooks.
- Livres de photographies.
- ISBN
- 190952638X
- 9781909526389
- OCLC
- ocn936147771
- 936147771
- SCSB-1868981
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library