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›Big Champ‹ there is now an extended new version of the book with a larger format, many more pages and a lot of so far unpublished photographs from the archives of Thomas Hoepker and Magnum.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 But many photographs in this book are lesser known or have been unpublished until now.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)
by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Big Champ
by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Strange Encounters (last copy)
by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Italia
by Thomas Hoepker
Euro 49.50
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by Jean-Marc Caimi & Valentina Piccinni
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by Will Steacy
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by Rimaldas Viksraitis
sold out -
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by Christine de Grancy
Euro 60 42.00 -
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by Reiner Riedler
Euro 50 -
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by Maryam Zandi
sold out
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by Martin Parr
sold out -
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by Martin Parr
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by Kazuma Obara
sold out -
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by various photographers
sold out -
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by various photographers
sold out -
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by Mark Power
sold out -
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sold out -
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by René Burri
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-
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Euro 165 -
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by Nicole Delmes (Herausgeber)
sold out -
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by Anne Morgenstern
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by Dina Oganova
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by Horst A. Friedrichs
Euro 25 17.50 -
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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
sold out -
Italia
by Thomas Hoepker
Euro 49.50
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Forcella
by Jean-Marc Caimi & Valentina Piccinni
sold out -
Deadline (signed - review copy)
by Will Steacy
sold out -
Grimaces of the Weary Villages (signed)
by Rimaldas Viksraitis
sold out -
Die Sahraouis
by Christine de Grancy
Euro 60 42.00 -
Albania (signed)
by Reiner Riedler
Euro 50 -
The Revolution Of Iran '79
by Maryam Zandi
sold out
more books tagged »magnum photographer« | >> see all
-
HOUSE 2012/2013 (signed+print - last copies)
by Rafal Milach
Euro 110 -
American Color 2
by Constantine Manos
sold out -
7 Rooms (signed + print)
by Rafal Milach
Euro 770 -
Louvreland (last copy)
by Erich Lessing
sold out -
Bad Weather (signed)
by Martin Parr
sold out -
We love Britain! (signed)
by Martin Parr
Euro 35
more books tagged »boxing« | >> see all
more books tagged »history« | >> see all
-
Silent Histories
by Kazuma Obara
sold out -
The History of European Photography 1900- 1938
by various photographers
sold out -
The History of European Photography 1970-2000
by various photographers
sold out -
Die Mauer ist weg! (signed)
by Mark Power
sold out -
Exils
by Josef Koudelka
sold out -
Blackout New York (SIGNED - last copy)
by René Burri
sold out
more books tagged »sports« | >> see all
-
Sunday Football (Photo Book 10)
by Chris Baker
sold out -
England Sports and Social '78-'83
by Gil Rigoulet
Euro 18 -
High Hopes
by Vitus Saloshanka
Euro 44 -
The Gray Friars of Canning Town
by Simon Roberts
Euro 18 -
My Golf Diary (signed + print)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 350 -
Folklig idrott
by Maximilian Stejskal
Euro 58
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-
Twenty-one Years in One Second (book + print)
by Erik Hinz
Euro 370 -
ANKUNFT BEI AUFBRUCH
by Sebastian Hesse, Andreas Rost & Christian Reister
sold out -
Witty Kiwi Mag: Issue 2
by various photographers
sold out -
Vergiszmeinnicht (signed - last copy)
by Thekla Ehling
Euro 165 -
Margret. Chronik einer Affäre. Mai 1969 bis Dezember 1970
by Nicole Delmes (Herausgeber)
sold out -
Hong Kong Coat Hangers (signed - last copy)
by Michael Wolf
Euro 145
more books tagged »portrait« | >> see all
-
Land ohne Mitte (signiert)
by Anne Morgenstern
Euro 44 -
My Place (signed)
by Dina Oganova
sold out -
Denim Style
by Horst A. Friedrichs
Euro 25 17.50 -
The nature people (signed)
by Brian Griffin
sold out -
KRETALABOR
by Kreta Kollektiv
Euro 25 -
Yesterday when I was little (signed)
by Vesselina Nikolaeva
Euro 75
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