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Article: Celebrating the greatest.(GOAT: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- Black Issues Book Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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GOAT: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali by Howard L. Bingham Taschen, April 2004, $3,000 ISBN 3-822-83068-2
Coming in at 75 pounds and 792 pages, this "monument on paper" is available in two editions: the Collector's Edition costs $3,000, and the Champ's Edition, numbered 1 through 1,000, which has a white, silk cover and includes four gallery-quality silver gelatin prints signed by Muhammad Ali and Howard L. Bingham and artwork by Jeff Koons, sells for $7,500. The book marks a major milestone in Bingham's life, for he is both its principal photographer and editorial consultant.
"We wanted to turn the logic of a conventional biography on its head. In this book, ...