Darkroom Print: Muhammad Ali, Chicago, 1966 Music who first photographed the monarch

who first photographed the monarch on her first official state visit to Ghana in 1961

The result – a curious collection of images often referred to as the “Mask Series”

known for an inalienable humanistic sensibility

Forever I will be proud to be a Prisoner of the Caucasus

Werner Bischof was born in Switzerland

Darkroom Print: Muhammad Ali, Chicago, 1966 Music who first photographed the monarchIn 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 iconic image of his world famous fist was taken. Over the course of a decade, Hoepker was given the opportunity to photograph Ali