Norman Mailer. Neil Leifer. Howard L. Bingham. the Fight

Howard Lenoid Bingham was born in Jackson, Mississippi on May 29, 1939. He attended Compton Community College and was hired as a photographer by The Los Angeles Sentinel. He was fired after 18 months for spending too much time on his own photographing weddings and other events. He became a freelance photographer who took pictures of Muhammad Ali, photographed the Black Panthers for Life and riots in various cities for Life magazine, and covered the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. He also worked for Time, Ebony, Newsweek, and Sports Illustrated. He published several books of photographs including Muhammad Ali: A Thirty-Year Journey and Howard L. Bingham's Black Panthers 1968. He died on December 15, 2016 at the age of 77.

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