Howard Bingham
Illustration — Bingham in 2005 Howard Leonid Bingham (May 29, 1939December 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.
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Howard Bingham
John Mathew Smith from Laurel Maryland, USA · The great Howard Bingham · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Born
- 1939 · Jackson.
- Died
- 2016 · Los Angeles.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer · biographer · photojournalist
- Fields
- photography · biography
- Honours
- Lucie Award
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — Bingham in 2005 Howard Leonid Bingham (May 29, 1939December 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.
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Howard Bingham is recorded as having received Lucie Award.
The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is photography and biography. Distinctions recorded are Lucie Award.
Wash D.C. 2002 having a confab with Ali's photog Howard Bingham
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1939
Howard Bingham was born in 1939 at Jackson.
2016
Howard Bingham died in 2016 at Los Angeles.
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