Big Champ (signed)
by Thomas Hoepker
Photographs: Thomas Hoepker
Publisher: Peperoni Books
144 pages
Pictures: 162 illustrations in colour and BW / Tritone
Year: 2015
ISBN: 978-3-941825-86-4
Comments: hardcover, 24 x 32 cm
In 2012 Thomas Hoepker´s book ›Champ‹ has been published by Peperoni Books. Three editions are completely sold out. With ›Big Champ‹ there is now an extended new version of the book with a larger format, many more pages and a lot of so far unpublished photographs from the archives of Thomas Hoepker and Magnum.
Ali was and is the greatest. A great sportsman, a controversial thinker, who with, his appearances in and outside the ring, enthralled people but also offended many. A polarizing figure, still unforgotten.
Thomas Hoepker, a member of MAGNUM PHOTOS, had the opportunity to spend time with Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali and take photographs – in 1960 when he won the a gold medal at the Rome Olympics, in 1966, when Ali was world heavyweight champion already, in 1970, when he, after several years of a forced absence from the ring, restarted his career and prepared himself for the ›Fight of the Century‹ against Joe Frazier and years later, already weakened by Parkinson´s disease. Many of these pictures have gone around the world and have become photographic icons. They have been shown in many museums and are sought after by collectors. But many photographs in this book are lesser known or have been unpublished until now. They show Ali in private moments and public appearances outside of the ring, on a visit to his hometown, talking to children and young people, flirting with a pretty baker´s daughter, who later became his wife, on the film set of ›The Dirty Dozen‹, in the gym and at home.
›Big Champ‹ is not a biography. This exciting book highlights excerpts from a most unusual life. Together with Ali´s loudmouthed but always profound and original sayings ›Champ‹ provides a shimmering portrait of a fascinating and contradictory personality. Along the way we also experience something about the pervasive racism of his time in the U.S., Ali´s connection to the ›Black Muslims‹ and his role in overcoming the racial desegregation.
›Allah is The Greatest. I´m just the greatest boxer.‹ That also was Muhammad Ali.
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Big Champ (signed)
by Thomas Hoepker
Photographs: Thomas Hoepker
Publisher: Peperoni Books
144 pages
Pictures: 162 illustrations in colour and BW / Tritone
Year: 2015
ISBN: 978-3-941825-86-4
Comments: hardcover, 24 x 32 cm
In 2012 Thomas Hoepker´s book ›Champ‹ has been published by Peperoni Books. Three editions are completely sold out. With ›Big Champ‹ there is now an extended new version of the book with a larger format, many more pages and a lot of so far unpublished photographs from the archives of Thomas Hoepker and Magnum.
Ali was and is the greatest. A great sportsman, a controversial thinker, who with, his appearances in and outside the ring, enthralled people but also offended many. A polarizing figure, still unforgotten.
Thomas Hoepker, a member of MAGNUM PHOTOS, had the opportunity to spend time with Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali and take photographs – in 1960 when he won the a gold medal at the Rome Olympics, in 1966, when Ali was world heavyweight champion already, in 1970, when he, after several years of a forced absence from the ring, restarted his career and prepared himself for the ›Fight of the Century‹ against Joe Frazier and years later, already weakened by Parkinson´s disease. Many of these pictures have gone around the world and have become photographic icons. They have been shown in many museums and are sought after by collectors. But many photographs in this book are lesser known or have been unpublished until now. They show Ali in private moments and public appearances outside of the ring, on a visit to his hometown, talking to children and young people, flirting with a pretty baker´s daughter, who later became his wife, on the film set of ›The Dirty Dozen‹, in the gym and at home.
›Big Champ‹ is not a biography. This exciting book highlights excerpts from a most unusual life. Together with Ali´s loudmouthed but always profound and original sayings ›Champ‹ provides a shimmering portrait of a fascinating and contradictory personality. Along the way we also experience something about the pervasive racism of his time in the U.S., Ali´s connection to the ›Black Muslims‹ and his role in overcoming the racial desegregation.
›Allah is The Greatest. I´m just the greatest boxer.‹ That also was Muhammad Ali.
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-
Heartland (signed - last copy)
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sold out -
Big Champ
by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Strange Encounters (last copy)
by Thomas Hoepker
Euro 50.60
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Euro 88 -
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by Thomas Struth
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by Josef Koudelka
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Big Champ (signed)
by Thomas Hoepker
Photographs: Thomas Hoepker
Publisher: Peperoni Books
144 pages
Pictures: 162 illustrations in colour and BW / Tritone
Year: 2015
ISBN: 978-3-941825-86-4
Comments: hardcover, 24 x 32 cm
In 2012 Thomas Hoepker´s book ›Champ‹ has been published by Peperoni Books. Three editions are completely sold out. With ›Big Champ‹ there is now an extended new version of the book with a larger format, many more pages and a lot of so far unpublished photographs from the archives of Thomas Hoepker and Magnum.
Ali was and is the greatest. A great sportsman, a controversial thinker, who with, his appearances in and outside the ring, enthralled people but also offended many. A polarizing figure, still unforgotten.
Thomas Hoepker, a member of MAGNUM PHOTOS, had the opportunity to spend time with Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali and take photographs – in 1960 when he won the a gold medal at the Rome Olympics, in 1966, when Ali was world heavyweight champion already, in 1970, when he, after several years of a forced absence from the ring, restarted his career and prepared himself for the ›Fight of the Century‹ against Joe Frazier and years later, already weakened by Parkinson´s disease. Many of these pictures have gone around the world and have become photographic icons. They have been shown in many museums and are sought after by collectors. But many photographs in this book are lesser known or have been unpublished until now. They show Ali in private moments and public appearances outside of the ring, on a visit to his hometown, talking to children and young people, flirting with a pretty baker´s daughter, who later became his wife, on the film set of ›The Dirty Dozen‹, in the gym and at home.
›Big Champ‹ is not a biography. This exciting book highlights excerpts from a most unusual life. Together with Ali´s loudmouthed but always profound and original sayings ›Champ‹ provides a shimmering portrait of a fascinating and contradictory personality. Along the way we also experience something about the pervasive racism of his time in the U.S., Ali´s connection to the ›Black Muslims‹ and his role in overcoming the racial desegregation.
›Allah is The Greatest. I´m just the greatest boxer.‹ That also was Muhammad Ali.
More books by Thomas Hoepker
-
Heartland (signed - last copy)
by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Big Champ
by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Strange Encounters (last copy)
by Thomas Hoepker
Euro 50.60
more books tagged »portrait« | >> see all
-
The Roma Journeys
by Joakim Eskildsen
sold out -
An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus (signed)
by Rob Hornstra
sold out -
Imperial Courts (signed - last copy)
by Dana Lixenberg
sold out -
KARCZEBY (signed)
by Adam Panczuk
Euro 75 -
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017
by various photographers
Euro 39 -
Russian Interiors (second edition - last copy)
by Andy Rocchelli
sold out
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-
TRÁNSITO
by Andrés Medina
Euro 25 -
Atavism (last copy)
by Robert Hutinski
sold out -
Proverbs (last copy)
by Gregori Maiofis
Euro 88 -
Behind the Glass (signed)
by Alexandra Catiere
sold out -
Thomas Struth Fotografien 1977 - 2002
by Thomas Struth
sold out -
Gypsies
by Josef Koudelka
sold out
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-
Twenty-one Years in One Second (signed)
by Erik Hinz
Euro 49 -
The Beauty of Serious Work (last two copies)
by Andreas Meichsner
Euro 46.50 -
Bordeaux Series (signed)
by Mona Kuhn
Euro 95 -
In Still Air (signed)
by Dana Stölzgen
sold out -
The Danube River Project
by Andreas Müller-Pohle
sold out -
Dusk
by Axel Hoedt
sold out
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-
Grosse Photographen unserer Zeit
by Inge Morath
sold out -
Exils
by Josef Koudelka
sold out -
Blackout New York (SIGNED - last copy)
by René Burri
sold out -
The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941
by Mikhail Karasik
sold out -
a Handful of Dust
by David Campany
Euro 38.50 -
The History of European Photography 1939-1969
by various photographers
Euro 108.90
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-
The Gray Friars of Canning Town
by Simon Roberts
Euro 18 -
Orion (signed)
by Doug Lowell
Euro 34 -
High Hopes (signed + print)
by Vitus Saloshanka
Euro 125 -
Folklig idrott
by Maximilian Stejskal
Euro 58 -
Graphis Photo 97
by B. Martin Pedersen
Euro 50 -
England Sports and Social '78-'83
by Gil Rigoulet
Euro 18
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-
Go (signed)
by Bruce Gilden
sold out -
One Picture Book 74: 7 Cups of Tea (signed + print)
by Martin Parr
sold out -
Now I wanna be your dog! (signed)
by Morten Andersen
Euro 16.50 -
Crossings
by Alex Webb
sold out -
ZZYZX (signed)
by Gregory Halpern
sold out -
Koudelka - first Greek edition
by Josef Koudelka
sold out
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