Big Champ
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›Big Champ‹ there is now an extended new version of the book with a larger format, many more pages and a lot of so far unpublished photographs from the archives of Thomas Hoepker and Magnum.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 But many photographs in this book are lesser known or have been unpublished until now.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 (signed)
by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Strange Encounters (last copy)
by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Italia
by Thomas Hoepker
Euro 49.50
more books tagged »portrait« | >> see all
-
KARCZEBY (signed)
by Adam Panczuk
Euro 75 -
autoportrait (signed - last copy)
by Martin Parr
sold out -
Homo Viksraitis (signed)
by Rimaldas Viksraitis
Euro 49 34.30 -
July (last copy)
by Ren Hang
sold out -
The brightest light runs too fast (signed + print - last copy)
by Ren Hang
Euro 1650 -
HUNDERT (signed)
by Olaf Unverzart
Euro 33
more books tagged »sports« | >> see all
-
High Hopes (signed + print)
by Vitus Saloshanka
Euro 125 87.50 -
Orion (signed)
by Doug Lowell
Euro 34 -
Graphis Photo 97
by B. Martin Pedersen
Euro 50 -
England Sports and Social '78-'83
by Gil Rigoulet
Euro 18 -
The Gray Friars of Canning Town
by Simon Roberts
Euro 18 -
Faszination Schnee - Traumhafte Skitouren zu weissen Gipfeln
by Robert Bösch
Euro 18 9.00
more books tagged »German« | >> see all
-
ALP
by Olaf Unverzart
sold out -
Astres Noirs (last copy - first edition)
by Katrin Koenning, Sarker Protick
sold out -
Our daily bread
by Erich Hartmann
Euro 52 -
Still Lifes
by Elfie Semotan
sold out -
Desiderata Set (last copy)
by Andreas Trogisch
sold out -
OR GLORY: 21st Century Rockers
by Horst A. Friedrichs
sold out
more books tagged »boxing« | >> see all
more books tagged »history« | >> see all
-
The History of European Photography 1900- 1938
by various photographers
sold out -
Silent Histories
by Kazuma Obara
sold out -
Blackout New York (SIGNED - last copy)
by René Burri
sold out -
The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941
by Mikhail Karasik
sold out -
The History of Monuments
by Wang Qingsong
sold out -
Die Mauer ist weg! (signed)
by Mark Power
sold out
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Blind Date (signed)
by Lieko Shiga
sold out -
Everglades (last copy)
by Jungjin Lee
sold out -
Roots & Bonds (unique collector's edition)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 2500 -
Floating
by Thomas Boivin
sold out -
Swell (last copy)
by Mateusz Sarello
sold out -
Goosewalk (signed - review copy)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 65 45.50
more books tagged »magnum photographer« | >> see all
-
Haiti
by Bruce Gilden
sold out -
THIS IS WHAT HATRED DID (signed - last copy)
by Cristina de Middel
Euro 135 -
The World From My Front Porch
by Larry Towell
sold out -
Jeddah Diary (signed and numbered)
by Olivia Arthur
sold out -
Grosse Photographen unserer Zeit
by Inge Morath
sold out -
History Travels Badly
by Inge Morath
Euro 22
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
Big Champ
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 (signed)
by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Strange Encounters (last copy)
by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Italia
by Thomas Hoepker
Euro 49.50
more books tagged »portrait« | >> see all
-
KARCZEBY (signed)
by Adam Panczuk
Euro 75 -
autoportrait (signed - last copy)
by Martin Parr
sold out -
Homo Viksraitis (signed)
by Rimaldas Viksraitis
Euro 49 34.30 -
July (last copy)
by Ren Hang
sold out -
The brightest light runs too fast (signed + print - last copy)
by Ren Hang
Euro 1650 -
HUNDERT (signed)
by Olaf Unverzart
Euro 33
more books tagged »sports« | >> see all
-
High Hopes (signed + print)
by Vitus Saloshanka
Euro 125 87.50 -
Orion (signed)
by Doug Lowell
Euro 34 -
Graphis Photo 97
by B. Martin Pedersen
Euro 50 -
England Sports and Social '78-'83
by Gil Rigoulet
Euro 18 -
The Gray Friars of Canning Town
by Simon Roberts
Euro 18 -
Faszination Schnee - Traumhafte Skitouren zu weissen Gipfeln
by Robert Bösch
Euro 18 9.00
more books tagged »German« | >> see all
-
ALP
by Olaf Unverzart
sold out -
Astres Noirs (last copy - first edition)
by Katrin Koenning, Sarker Protick
sold out -
Our daily bread
by Erich Hartmann
Euro 52 -
Still Lifes
by Elfie Semotan
sold out -
Desiderata Set (last copy)
by Andreas Trogisch
sold out -
OR GLORY: 21st Century Rockers
by Horst A. Friedrichs
sold out
more books tagged »boxing« | >> see all
more books tagged »history« | >> see all
-
The History of European Photography 1900- 1938
by various photographers
sold out -
Silent Histories
by Kazuma Obara
sold out -
Blackout New York (SIGNED - last copy)
by René Burri
sold out -
The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941
by Mikhail Karasik
sold out -
The History of Monuments
by Wang Qingsong
sold out -
Die Mauer ist weg! (signed)
by Mark Power
sold out
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Blind Date (signed)
by Lieko Shiga
sold out -
Everglades (last copy)
by Jungjin Lee
sold out -
Roots & Bonds (unique collector's edition)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 2500 -
Floating
by Thomas Boivin
sold out -
Swell (last copy)
by Mateusz Sarello
sold out -
Goosewalk (signed - review copy)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 65 45.50
more books tagged »magnum photographer« | >> see all
-
Haiti
by Bruce Gilden
sold out -
THIS IS WHAT HATRED DID (signed - last copy)
by Cristina de Middel
Euro 135 -
The World From My Front Porch
by Larry Towell
sold out -
Jeddah Diary (signed and numbered)
by Olivia Arthur
sold out -
Grosse Photographen unserer Zeit
by Inge Morath
sold out -
History Travels Badly
by Inge Morath
Euro 22
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
Big Champ
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 (signed)
by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Strange Encounters (last copy)
by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Italia
by Thomas Hoepker
Euro 49.50
more books tagged »portrait« | >> see all
-
KARCZEBY (signed)
by Adam Panczuk
Euro 75 -
autoportrait (signed - last copy)
by Martin Parr
sold out -
Homo Viksraitis (signed)
by Rimaldas Viksraitis
Euro 49 34.30 -
July (last copy)
by Ren Hang
sold out -
The brightest light runs too fast (signed + print - last copy)
by Ren Hang
Euro 1650 -
HUNDERT (signed)
by Olaf Unverzart
Euro 33
more books tagged »sports« | >> see all
-
High Hopes (signed + print)
by Vitus Saloshanka
Euro 125 87.50 -
Orion (signed)
by Doug Lowell
Euro 34 -
Graphis Photo 97
by B. Martin Pedersen
Euro 50 -
England Sports and Social '78-'83
by Gil Rigoulet
Euro 18 -
The Gray Friars of Canning Town
by Simon Roberts
Euro 18 -
Faszination Schnee - Traumhafte Skitouren zu weissen Gipfeln
by Robert Bösch
Euro 18 9.00
more books tagged »German« | >> see all
-
ALP
by Olaf Unverzart
sold out -
Astres Noirs (last copy - first edition)
by Katrin Koenning, Sarker Protick
sold out -
Our daily bread
by Erich Hartmann
Euro 52 -
Still Lifes
by Elfie Semotan
sold out -
Desiderata Set (last copy)
by Andreas Trogisch
sold out -
OR GLORY: 21st Century Rockers
by Horst A. Friedrichs
sold out
more books tagged »boxing« | >> see all
more books tagged »history« | >> see all
-
The History of European Photography 1900- 1938
by various photographers
sold out -
Silent Histories
by Kazuma Obara
sold out -
Blackout New York (SIGNED - last copy)
by René Burri
sold out -
The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941
by Mikhail Karasik
sold out -
The History of Monuments
by Wang Qingsong
sold out -
Die Mauer ist weg! (signed)
by Mark Power
sold out
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Blind Date (signed)
by Lieko Shiga
sold out -
Everglades (last copy)
by Jungjin Lee
sold out -
Roots & Bonds (unique collector's edition)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 2500 -
Floating
by Thomas Boivin
sold out -
Swell (last copy)
by Mateusz Sarello
sold out -
Goosewalk (signed - review copy)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 65 45.50
more books tagged »magnum photographer« | >> see all
-
Haiti
by Bruce Gilden
sold out -
THIS IS WHAT HATRED DID (signed - last copy)
by Cristina de Middel
Euro 135 -
The World From My Front Porch
by Larry Towell
sold out -
Jeddah Diary (signed and numbered)
by Olivia Arthur
sold out -
Grosse Photographen unserer Zeit
by Inge Morath
sold out -
History Travels Badly
by Inge Morath
Euro 22
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com