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Provenance
The photographer to Richard Coplan, circa 2012
Literature
Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 246
Elliott Erwitt, Sequentially Yours, Elliott Erwitt (Kempen, 2011), pp. 120-121
Exhibited
Elliott Erwitt: Photographs from the Collection of Richard Coplan and Martin R. Mallinger, Boca Raton Museum of Art, 9 November 2014 - 11 January 2015
The Art of Observation: The Best of Photographer Elliott Erwitt, D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts / Springfield Museums, 9 November 2019 - 12 January 2020; Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, 17 September - 31 December 2022
Note
Boxing champions Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali faced off at Madison Square Garden in New York City on 8 March 1971 in 'The Fight of the Century.' Their fifteen-round match was broadcast around the globe, while celebrities such as Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand attended the sold-out event in person. Ali had been banned from boxing and stripped of his World Heavyweight Champion title in 1967 because he refused the draft during the Vietnam War. Going into this fight, Frazier ranked as the heavyweight champion. He served Ali with his first defeat in the ring and defended his title.