Fine Print: Muhammad Ali. Chicago, Illinois, 1966 Size:24 x 36 in (60 x 90 cm) photographer Dennis Stock had an

photographer Dennis Stock had an extraordinary ability to capture the essence of the American experience

creating spaces where one doesn’t feel like a stranger

Under a brooding sky in Gourock

or to individually go in new directions

His vocation would eventually bring about his death as he was killed on assignment by a landmine in 1954

Fine Print: Muhammad Ali. Chicago, Illinois, 1966 Size:24 x 36 in (60 x 90 cm) photographer Dennis Stock had anIn 1966, when Thomas Hoepker was a young staff photographer at STERN magazine, he was asked to cover a fight in London with the then heavyweight champion of the world, Muhammad Ali. After documenting him for a few days there, Hoepker persuaded his editor that the story was bigger and followed Ali to Chicago where this photograph was taken.