Ali Invents the Double-Clutch Shuffle

Artwork details

Artist

Neil Leifer

Title

Ali Invents the Double-Clutch Shuffle

Description

Ali Invents the Double-Clutch Shuffle, LIFE magazine studio, December 1966: Muhammad Ali, poised for battle on the eve of his title defense against Ernie Terrell, demonstrates the double-clutch shuffle in a multiple exposure sequence engineered by Neil Leifer. When the champ first announced this new move in his fighting arsenal on the Tonight Show some months earlier, he whispered to Johnny Carson, ‘I’ve got a secret weapon. I'm going to call it the double-clutch shuffle.’ “It was as though he wasn’t on camera with an audience watching,” says Leifer. The dance became so essential to his repertoire it would go on to be called the Ali Shuffle.

• Exclusive edition of 40 copies signed by Neil Leifer
• Signed, titled, dated, and numbered on label on verso
• Dye-sublimation print on ChromaLuxe aluminum panel (diptych), ready to hang
• Each 80 x 165 cm (31.5 x 65 in.)

Date

2020

Medium

Dye Construction Print

Edition

40

Signature

Signed

Sheet

80 x 165 each cm

Status

Available

Price

£7,000.00