MUHAMMAD ALI

In 1966 Life magazine assigned famed photographer Gordon Parks to cover Muhammad Ali, the brash young boxing champion. Four years la ter in 1970, the two came together again for a second feature story in The Great American Magazine. These encounters framed a crit ical passage in the career of the controversial heavyweight, whose antiwar and black separatist views had led to widespread vilifica tion in the United States. They also marked a significant moment of transition for Parks, then following up his remarkable success in photojour...[Read more]