During his long career as a photographer, Flip Schulke covered wars, presidents, rocket launches and the great human drama of the civil rights movement in the American South. But people always asked about one picture in particular: Muhammad Ali standing underwater.
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In his more than 60 years behind the lens, Flip Schulke photographed figures such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, Jacques Cousteau, Fidel Castro, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Elvis Presley, and John F. Kennedy. He created more than 500,000 photographs — 11,000 of those from the civil rights movement.
“I called him The Legend,” said Donna Schulke, Mr. Schulke’s fourth wife.
Schulke, 77, traveled all over — bringing the world, and the sea, home with his camera. But age and poor health recently slowed the adventurer, and he died Thursday of congestive heart failure at Columbia Hospital.
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