Muhammad Ali rests after a grueling sparring session at his training camp at Deer Lake, PA on October 27, 1973. Also in the room were members of the press who were attempting to have him make predictions about his forthcoming match with Joe Frazier. Ali was making his point on every topic under the sun.
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Muhammad Ali gets a liniment rubdown after a sparring match at his training camp. I suppose the sneer is his response to the constant massaging of his muscles to keep them limber.
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Ali was holding court on a Saturday afternoon, complete with sparring matches to show his fans his footwork. As the afternoon stretched on, Ali became more open with my close proximity, so we got down to doing a series of portraits in his living quarters or in the ring.
Here Ali contemplates his future. There were times when the crew moved away from him, but in hindsight I don’t believe I did. I was there for a short time and I had a job to do. They had their jobs to do and I had mine.
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Ali was holding court on a Saturday afternoon, egging on the press to give him their best shot. After the sparring match, he was relaxed and ready to rumble. I sat across from him while the reporters from the Daily News, the Times, and others badgered him with inane questions. The press treated Ali like he was the only thinking boxer in history, and they were there to get a nugget of insight into what made him tick.
I was just trying to keep it together, as I was sure I would never be in a room with Ali again as long as I lived, and I was right.
In this portrait, Ali reacts to a question from a reporter.
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Muhammad Ali speaks after a sparring session at his training camp in Deer Lake, PA on October 27, 1973. His size 13 shoes are in the foreground.
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This trestle was one of a series built for showing the effects of an atomic weapons pressure wave. There were a half dozen trestles, but today only one stands in the desolate silence of Frenchman Flat. More than 50 years has elapsed since Priscilla, as it was part of the Plumb-bob series detonated in 1957.
Hundreds of atomic weapons tests took place in the desert less than a hundred miles from Las Vegas. More to the point, the wind was not always blowing away from Vegas.
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This window frame is part of the structure known as the ‘Motels’. They stretch across Frenchman Flat as a series of concrete structures erected to show how varying materials withstood shock waves and high temperatures. This piece of concrete is melted and shows pitting probably caused by a combination of stress and heat.
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This is the view the public sees when passing the Nevada Test Site entrance off US 95 between Las Vegas and Reno. On the left are large pens built to hold protesters. Whenever the going gets tough, the administration in DC changes the Test Site’s name.
It began as the Nevada Proving Grounds, and then after a few A-bombs lit up the sky, it became the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and remained so for decades. Las Wegians could get up early, sit on their balconies, take a hit of reefer, and get a spectacular light show from less than 100 miles distant and if they weren’t lucky, the resulting shock wave could break their windows and/or cause them to be irradiated by fallout. It was recently decided it should be known as the Nevada Nuclear Security Site, although its role is the same as it used to be: testing atomic weapons, albeit now underground. In the interim, it was discovered that the NTS owned Area 51, not the CIA. Oops!
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