Howard Bingham

Howard Bingham (born Jackson, Mississippi, 1939 is the biographer of Muhammad Ali and a professional photographer.

He was the son of a minister and Pullman porter for the US railroad. After initially failing a photography course, he was hired by a local newspaper and there he met the young Cassius Clay (later to become Muhammad Ali). The two built up an instant rapport and many years later, Bingham went on to create arguably the definitive book of photographs of Ali, Muhammad Ali: A Thirty-Year Journey.^[1]

Bingham was the first black photographer to work on a Hollywood Camera Guild crew. His photographs have been published in magazines and periodicals including: Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, People, Ebony and others. He was selected as a photographer for the 1990 project Songs of My People.^[2]

References

^ Bingham, Howard L., et al. Muhammad Ali: a Thirty Year Journey. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. ISBN 0671760785
^ University of Missouri. "Songs of My People: A Collection of Photographs from the Museum of Art and Archaeology." Accessed August 7, 2009.

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