Muhammad ali underwater flip schulke biography

Flip Schulke (1930 - 2008) had the good fortune and good instincts necessary to be a great photojournalist. He also knew how to get a great shot of whatever iconic figure or event he was covering.

Muhammad ali underwater flip schulke biography

He seemed to be every place that made important news in mid-century America. The Revolution in Cuba, the March on Washington, The last days of President Kennedy and the Texas Book Depository on that fateful November day, The Space program, and Martin Luther King are just some of the pivotal moments covered by his insightful reportage.

One of his most well known and fortuitous assignments occurred in 1961 when a cocky 19 year old boxer named Cassius Clay was to be photographed for his first time for Sports Illustrated after winning a medal in the Rome Olympics in 1960. The two hit it off right away and Schulke proudly showed the young boxer his recently published first spread in Life on water skiers photographed from underwater.

Schulke later met Clay