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›Big Champ‹ there is now an extended new version of the book with a larger format, many more pages and a lot of so far unpublished photographs from the archives of Thomas Hoepker and Magnum.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 But many photographs in this book are lesser known or have been unpublished until now.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 -
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by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Italia (last copy)
by Thomas Hoepker
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by Regina Anzenberger
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by Gil Rigoulet
Euro 18 -
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by Vitus Saloshanka
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by Mikhael Subotzky
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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 (last copy)
by Thomas Hoepker
Euro 49.50
more books tagged »sports« | >> see all
-
Sunday Football (Photo Book 10)
by Chris Baker
sold out -
Folklig idrott
by Maximilian Stejskal
Euro 58 -
My Golf Diary (signed + print)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 350 -
England Sports and Social '78-'83
by Gil Rigoulet
Euro 18 -
High Hopes (signed + print)
by Vitus Saloshanka
Euro 125 -
Orion (signed)
by Doug Lowell
Euro 34
more books tagged »boxing« | >> see all
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-
Philippe Halsman's Jump Book
by Philippe Halsman
Euro 125 -
Gathered Leaves (signed - last copies)
by Alec Soth
sold out -
New York September 11 (signed by 9 magnum photographers)
by Magnum Photographers
sold out -
STIGMA (signed)
by Antoine d'Agata
Euro 350 -
à propos de Paris
by Henri Cartier-Bresson
sold out -
Beaufort West
by Mikhael Subotzky
sold out
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by Margaret Courtney-Clarke
Euro 65 -
Black Country Stories (signed)
by Martin Parr
Euro 49 -
Ghosts In My Car
by Andreas Frei
Euro 29 -
ON (signed)
by Eamonn Doyle
Euro 350 -
Easter and Oak Trees (signed)
by Bertien van Manen
sold out -
Surfacing (review copy)
by Katinka Goldberg
Euro 75 37.50
more books tagged »history« | >> see all
-
The History of European Photography 1970-2000
by various photographers
sold out -
The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941
by Mikhail Karasik
sold out -
Forget Your Past (signed)
by Nikola Mihov
sold out -
a Handful of Dust
by David Campany
Euro 38.50 -
Silent Histories
by Kazuma Obara
sold out -
The History of European Photography 1939-1969
by various photographers
Euro 108.90
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-
Lost In The City (Photo Book 8)
by Nicholas Sack
sold out -
Rome - Malibu
by Ari Marcopoulos
sold out -
KARCZEBY (signed)
by Adam Panczuk
sold out -
Asphalt (signed - last copies)
by Andreas Trogisch
sold out -
Zine Collection N°1: The Downtown East (signed+print)
by Claire Martin
sold out -
Push The Sky Away
by Piotr Zbierski
Euro 44
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-
Margret. Chronik einer Affäre. Mai 1969 bis Dezember 1970
by Nicole Delmes (Herausgeber)
sold out -
Real Fake Art (signed)
by Michael Wolf
sold out -
Hong Kong Rubber Boots and Shoes (signed - last copy)
by Michael Wolf
sold out -
First World War Now (signed)
by Magnum Photographers
Euro 65 -
Landscapes & Memory
by Jo Röttger
Euro 35 -
Denim Style
by Horst A. Friedrichs
Euro 25
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