GOAT - A Tribute to Muhammad Ali
"... the biggest, heaviest, most radiant thing ever printed in the history of civilization."
- Der Spiegel, Hamburg.
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* Eight-color printing on Galaxi Keramik 200 gsm semi-matte paper with gloss varnish on all images.
* Prioritized delivery of GOAT has started in the Spring of 2004. As copies are completed they will ship to customers in the order in which the pre-orders were received.
Howard L. Bingham
Howard L. Bingham has lived in Los Angeles since the age of four. He has worked and studied there, and most importantly perhaps, met his lifelong friend Muhammad Ali there, in 1962. He had no idea who the emerging fighter was when he was assigned by the Los Angeles Sentinel to photograph the young Cassius Clay (Ali still reminds him of this oversight 40 years later). Since then, Bingham has become a highly-respected portrait and reportage photographer, honored with awards in the United States and with his work gracing magazines like Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, Time and People. His work has been exhibited internationally, but he remains best known for his extraordinary body of work capturing, at close quarters, the many faces of Muhammad Ali. The most powerful expression of this came in his acclaimed 1991 book, Muhammad Ali: A Thirty-Year Journey. He is Principal Photographer and Editorial Consultant of GOAT.
Jeff Koons
We are proud to have Jeff Koons create his own tribute to Muhammad Ali as part of the "Champ's Edition" of GOAT. Koons, 48, is one of the most influential living artists and an icon of the modern art world. He started his meteoric rise in the 1980s as part of a generation of artists who explored the meaning of art in a media-saturated age. With his stated intention to communicate with the masses, Koons draws from the visual language of mass media and advertising, and the entertainment industry. Testing the limits between high and low culture, his sculptural menagerie includes Plexiglas-encased Hoover vacuum cleaners, basketballs floating in glass aquariums, and porcelain homages to Michael Jackson and the Pink Panther. Koons' frequent goal is to present the common object as is. "When I'm working with an object I always have to give the greatest consideration not to alter the object physically or even psychologically. I try to reveal a certain aspect of the object's personality. I'm placing the object in a context or material which will enhance a specific personality trait within the object. The soul of the object must be maintained ..."
His sculpture, Michael Jackson and Bubbles, was sold at Sotheby's in 2001 for $ 6 million. Koons has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions — at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Bilbao Guggenheim, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago among others.
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- Der Spiegel, Hamburg.
Page 1 2 3
* Eight-color printing on Galaxi Keramik 200 gsm semi-matte paper with gloss varnish on all images.
* Prioritized delivery of GOAT has started in the Spring of 2004. As copies are completed they will ship to customers in the order in which the pre-orders were received.
Howard L. Bingham
Howard L. Bingham has lived in Los Angeles since the age of four. He has worked and studied there, and most importantly perhaps, met his lifelong friend Muhammad Ali there, in 1962. He had no idea who the emerging fighter was when he was assigned by the Los Angeles Sentinel to photograph the young Cassius Clay (Ali still reminds him of this oversight 40 years later). Since then, Bingham has become a highly-respected portrait and reportage photographer, honored with awards in the United States and with his work gracing magazines like Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, Time and People. His work has been exhibited internationally, but he remains best known for his extraordinary body of work capturing, at close quarters, the many faces of Muhammad Ali. The most powerful expression of this came in his acclaimed 1991 book, Muhammad Ali: A Thirty-Year Journey. He is Principal Photographer and Editorial Consultant of GOAT.
Jeff Koons
We are proud to have Jeff Koons create his own tribute to Muhammad Ali as part of the "Champ's Edition" of GOAT. Koons, 48, is one of the most influential living artists and an icon of the modern art world. He started his meteoric rise in the 1980s as part of a generation of artists who explored the meaning of art in a media-saturated age. With his stated intention to communicate with the masses, Koons draws from the visual language of mass media and advertising, and the entertainment industry. Testing the limits between high and low culture, his sculptural menagerie includes Plexiglas-encased Hoover vacuum cleaners, basketballs floating in glass aquariums, and porcelain homages to Michael Jackson and the Pink Panther. Koons' frequent goal is to present the common object as is. "When I'm working with an object I always have to give the greatest consideration not to alter the object physically or even psychologically. I try to reveal a certain aspect of the object's personality. I'm placing the object in a context or material which will enhance a specific personality trait within the object. The soul of the object must be maintained ..."
His sculpture, Michael Jackson and Bubbles, was sold at Sotheby's in 2001 for $ 6 million. Koons has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions — at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Bilbao Guggenheim, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago among others.
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GOAT
Hardcover in a clamshell box, 19.7 x 19.7 in., 792 pages, $ 6000
