He did that all on his own,” Schulke recalled, claiming that Life never ran the photograph because they thought he had posed Clay. “I turned around, and I was just grabbing another camera to take more pictures, and when I turned around he was standing on the bottom of the pool. And actually I have about six frames of him standing there.” The pictures on my walls at home are not my photographs, they’re photographs of the great Life photographers over the years, with this one exception. It’s the only picture that has always been up on the walls in my home. I have a large print of it. It’s right in my living room.” Unexpectedly he adds: “I like to hang it as a diamond shape with Cleveland Williams at the top.” In the studio We were driving round in the limo one day and he said ‘let’s stop in this bakery, they have wonderful doughnuts’, which was totally against his diet as he was in training for a fight” says Hoepker. “Then a few hours later we were passing this little bakery again and he asks to go in again. That time I got a little suspicious, so I followed him in and found him flirting with the baker’s daughter.” The photograph captures Ali with his guard down, in a genuine sense. Only eight years later, when Hoepker went to meet Ali at his home did he discover that Ali and the baker’s daughter, Belinda, had eventually wed. One of the pictures (below) from that shoot, showing Clay fully underwater with his fists raised, is one of the most famous pictures of Ali ever taken. But it didn't run in Life because the editors there thought it looked too posed. The Magnum photographer Abbas, who spent time with Ali prior to ‘The Rumble in the Jungle’ – of which it is the 40th anniversary – describes it best: “He was like a film-director and we were working for him.” Bill

The next day, Schulke met Clay at the Sir John Hotel in Overtown, Fla., and watched as he suddenly jumped into a swimming pool. Clay soon began to throw some punches and, after drawing Schulke’s attention, told him that the water pressure against his fists acted as a weight. Intrigued by this unorthodox exercise, Schulke called Sports Illustrated and asked if they would pay him to shoot Clay training in the pool over the next few days. His editor swiftly turned down the proposal and vowed to never again give Schulke a boxing assignment. Yet, the idea for the striking picture wasn’t the photographer’s alone. Cassius Marcellus Clay, who later changed his name to Muhammad Ali in honor of his faith, had met the photographer Schulke the day prior. Sports Illustrated sent Flip Schulke to capture the young boxer who had, the year prior, taken Gold at the 1960 Olympic games. In the picture, Ali looks manic as he tries to goad Frazier, while Frazier defiantly stares through the glass and beyond Ali, as if to suggest his opponent scarcely exists. “I certainly couldn’t coax Ali into doing anything, and our mantra [at Life magazine] was always ‘be invisible’, but I think in terms of publicly-managing the image Ali was in control. You can see it in his eyes. And as soon as it started happening I knew this could really work.” ‘Sooo pretty’ Clay demonstrated by jumping into the pool at the hotel where he was staying (The Sir John Hotel) and started to throw punches in the water.Ali looks in the mirror at the 5th Street Gym in 1970. Photograph: Neil Leifer/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images

When Sports Illustrated assigned me a story about a young boxer, Cassius Clay, I had never heard of him. I showed him my underwater pictures of water-skiing to impress him that I had done a story for Life. I went to the motel where he was staying, and there he was in the swimming pool going through his workout. He was doing a hook and a jab, and I could see the bubbles. I said to him, 'That's fantastic because I see your fists going through the water, like my water-skiing pictures.' Fittingly, Ali is flippant when the subject is discussed. “Ali has never had a conversation with me where he’s dwelled on any particular picture,” says Leifer. “I have sat with him in an exhibition where he was guest of honour. He would put his arm around me and tell me how the Ali v Liston picture is the greatest picture ever taken of him, and five minutes later he’d have his arm around Howard Bingham pointing to some picture and saying ‘Howard, that’s the best picture that’s ever been taken of me’.” In both instances, Fischer and Lois had created lean but telling portraits of the two men – Ali as an icon and Liston as a man perceived to be so mean he could even ruin Christmas. “The more you can simplify an idea the better it becomes as a cover,” Fischer explains. It has often been said that Ali is a man of split character – that his wild-eyed antics were all for show and the second he was out of the limelight and away from the media, he would be calm, reflective and sometimes distinctly shy. For those commissioned to document the champion, Ali’s capricious behaviour made him both a handful and a curiosity.As Flip Schulke described his last shoot over lunch one day in 1961, the nineteen-year-old boxer across the table devoured every word. Schulke, a Miami-based freelancer for Sports Illustrated, vividly explained how he had photographed water-skiers from below and published the pictures in Life magazine. At that moment, an idea formed in the young fighter’s head. Years before he would float like a butterfly and sting like a bee, Cassius Clay decided to lie like a rug. When Ali realised it was a Christian symbol he wasn’t sure whether to go through with it,” Fischer explains. “So he put in a call to Herbert Muhammad [his manager] in Chicago because he wanted some comfort to know that it was OK. He felt a little guilty but that call made him feel better. The thing is, people always want their picture on the cover; Ali was the same.” Muhammad Ali talks to Belinda Boyd, who would become his third wife. Photograph: Thomas Hoepker/Magnum Photos

So Schulke called Life, and they liked the idea. Schulke proceeded with the photoshoot. The pictures ran in Life. And they became among the most celebrated sports photos of all time. Recognition for Schulke's work includes: 1995, the Crystal Eagle Award for Impact in Photojournalism, from the National Press Photographer Association; 1986, First Annual New York State Martin Luther King, Jr. Medal of Freedom; 1983, Golden Trident, from the Government of Italy for his accomplishments in underwater photography; and 1967, Underwater Photographer of the Year-USA, from the International Underwater film and photography competition, Santa Monica, California. Seeing these photos, Clay immediately told Schulke that it so happened that he trained underwater in a swimming pool because, "An old trainer up in Louisville told me that if I practice in the pool, the water resistance acts just like a weight."comhazrat ali ra 2011name of imam ali [] for your , Mobile & Tablet. Explore Ali Name . Ya Ali , Muhammad Ali HD wallpaper