“I had no idea the ‘60s would be so iconic,” LIFE photographer Bob Gomel, 88, said recently. “It seemed quite ordinary at the time, but looking back on it now, I realize how fortunate I was.” To learn more about Gomel and his incredible photos, check out:
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X celebrated after Ali won the heavyweight title, 1964.The Champ, The Beatles and a Tearful Girl: The Photography of Bob GomelMuhammad Ali posed at a soda fountain for Malcolm X in Miami after winning the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston, 1964.The photographs of Bob Gomel put you in a diner with Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, poolside with the Beatles, and high above the U.S. Capitol rotunda as John F. Kennedy lay in state.
After a four-year stint in the U.S. Navy as an aviator, he came back to the U.S. and actually turned down a plum job offer from the Associated Press, so focussed was he on creating magazine-style narrative journalism. His initial breakthrough with LIFE came during a tough time for his family; Gomel’s brother was in a serious car accident, and Gomel shot pictures of his family as they managed this crisis, including photos of his brother’s operation during which a lung was removed.
Gomel would go on to capture stunning images from Kennedy’s funeral after the president’s assassination. While Kennedy’s casket was on display in the Capitol rotunda, Gomel broke away from the pack to climb the stairs and find an overhead view. It had been a cloudy day, but when Gomel was on high, the clouds parted and sunlight shone through, a moment so photographically propitious that Gomel refers to it as “divine intervention.
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