MUHAMMAD ALI – DAVID KING
2010-03-28David King’s photographs of Muhammad Ali, taken at his training camp in the Pennsylvania Mountains in 1974 when the “Greatest Of All Time” was preparing for his legendary world heavyweight title fight against George Foreman, held later that year in Kinshasa, Zaire.
The photographs document Ali’s sixteen-week training programme for the fight (memorably named by him as “The Rumble in the Jungle”) and are of considerable historical importance.
David King first started shooting photographs when he was Art Editor of the Sunday Times Colour Magazine (1965-75). His photographic biography of Ali was published by Penguin in 1975 and sold 175,000 copies.
Exhibition runs through to April 29th, 2011
Lucy Bell
46 Norman Road
St Leonards on Sea
TN38 0EJ
