Fine Print: Muhammad Ali posing for a studio photographer. Chicago river, Illinois, 1966 Size:24 x 36 in (60 x 90 cm) Elizabeth Taylor and Katherine Hepburn

Elizabeth Taylor and Katherine Hepburn

Embedded with Marines on Iwo Jima

He had recently changed his name to Muhammed Ali

diagonal streaks of snow slice across the frame

smoked and bloodied each other up

Fine Print: Muhammad Ali posing for a studio photographer. Chicago river, Illinois, 1966 Size:24 x 36 in (60 x 90 cm) Elizabeth Taylor and Katherine HepburnIn 1966, when Thomas Hoepker was a young staff photographer at STERN magazine, he was asked to cover a fight in London with the then heavyweight champion of the world, Muhammad Ali. After documenting him for a few days there, Hoepker persuaded his editor that the story was bigger and followed Ali to Chicago where this photograph was taken.