Howard L. Bingham

Howard L. Bingham (1939–2016) photographed Ali—then Cassius Clay—at a press appearance in Los Angeles in 1962. A year later, Ali knighted him his “personal photographer,” inaugurating a lifelong friendship and over a million photographs of The Champ both in and outside of the ring. His work was featured in magazines including Life, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and Ebony.