Object Details
- Artist
- Garry Winogrand, 14 Jan 1928 - 19 Mar 1984
- Sitter
- Muhammad Ali, 17 Jan 1942 - 3 Jun 2016
- Exhibition Label
- In 1969, the photographer Garry Winogrand received a Guggenheim Fellowship to record the “effect of the media on events.” The boxer Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, proved a perfect subject for Winogrand’s project. Ali’s catchy lines did not disappoint, as seen from the smiling faces of the journalists and photographers surrounding him at a press conference for his December 7, 1970, bout with the Argentine pugilist Oscar Bonavena.
- A master of public relations, Ali had pushed staff at Madison Square Garden in New York City to make the fight accessible “so that all the policemen, firemen, postmen, stevedores, taxi drivers, truck drivers and winos, all the people who can’t afford more than $10 can see the beauty fight the beast.” Several live broadcasts across New York City and Long Island made it possible for countless individuals to join the arena’s crowd in watching Ali defeat Bonavena in the fifteenth round.
- En 1969, el fotógrafo Garry Winogrand obtuvo una Beca Guggenheim para documentar el “efecto de los medios masivos sobre los acontecimientos”. El boxeador Muhammad Ali (nacido Cassius Clay), resultó ser un sujeto perfecto para el proyecto. Sus ocurrencias no defraudaron, como se aprecia por las sonrisas de periodistas y fotógrafos en una conferencia de prensa sobre su pelea el 7 de diciembre de 1970 contra el púgil argentino Oscar Bonavena.
- Maestro de las relaciones públicas, Ali había presionado al Madison Square Garden de Nueva York para que la pelea fuera accesible a “policías, bomberos, carteros, estibadores, taxistas, camio- neros y borrachines, toda la gente que no puede pagar más de $10 por ver al bello contra la bestia”. Varias transmisiones en vivo en Nueva York y Long Island hicieron posible que infinidad de personas vieran, junto al público del estadio, el triunfo de Ali contra Bonavena en el decimoquinto asalto.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- 1970 (printed 1983)
- Object number
- NPG.84.27
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 31.4 x 47 cm (12 3/8 x 18 1/2")
- Sheet: 40.6 × 50.6 cm (16 × 19 15/16")
- Place
- United States\New York\Kings\New York
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Equipment\Sound Devices\Microphone
- Equipment\Camera
- Costume\Robe
- Muhammad Ali: Male
- Muhammad Ali: Sports\Athlete\Boxer
- Muhammad Ali: Civilian awards\Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.84.27
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4c669ac09-31bb-4f63-9cc1-17c5f79633c3
