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

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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.