"howard l. bingham"

Howard L. Bingham (1939–2016) first met Muhammad 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. Bingham also shot a significant portfolio of 1960s urban riots as well as portraits of other public figures as disparate as Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Malcolm X, and President Gerald Ford. His work was featured in magazines including Life, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and Ebony.