“Photography seemed to me something magical.”
~ William Klein
(1926-2022)
For sure, William Klein was known to shake up the rules. Not only just of fashion photography, but of photography itself. In moments like this, you can feel him moving through the scene and leaving a kind of charged spirit in his wake. Nothing is static, nothing is overly composed.
Klein didn’t just photograph Ali, he stepped into the storm around him. The crowd, the tension, the spectacle. It all becomes part of the image. He was, in every sense, one of the great, always delivering exactly what was needed: something alive, something unforgettable.
