Howard Bingham

Howard Leonid Bingham (May 29, 1939 – December 15, 2016) was a biographer of Muhammad Ali and a professional photographer. Bingham was born in Jackson, Mississippi, the son of a minister and Pullman porter. After initially failing a photography course, he later began an apprenticeship at the Los Angeles Sentinel, working under the paper's long-time chief photographer Cliff Hall for eighteen months. While working there, he met the young Cassius Clay (later to become Muhammad Ali). The two had an instant rapport, one that led to a lifelong friendship. Bingham went on to create arguably the definitive book of photographs of Ali, Muhammad Ali: A Thirty-Year Journey. Bingham was one of the first black photographers to work on a Hollywood International Cinematographers Guild camera crew.

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