TERENCE CRAWFORD: The movement is an incense burner that he’s holding. We had a light behind that window. The candles are lit. We shot at a very slow shutter speed, so he had to hold really still while that thing was moving. But there was no ‘What are we doing? What is this for? Why am I doing this?’” CANELO ALVAREZ: “That’s from my friend who raises doves in Northern California. Mostly he releases them at funerals and weddings, and I use his doves all the time in photoshoots. It was perched on Canelo’s hand and the dove wouldn’t leave him. It was really amazing. His wings were not clipped. That bird could have flown any time. He wasn’t wired down. So, he could have left if he wanted to, but he stayed. [Canelo is] like a gentle giant, you know? It just looked better with the bird. I was going to have him, like, pushing and breaking these columns down like Hercules, but instead we wound up with the dove.”
THE CANELO-CRAWFORD FACEOFF ON THE CLIFF: “I had Colleen Atwood, the four-time Academy Award-winning costume designer – she worked on all those Tim Burton movies – and so she did the clothing for them, which was sort of like early man, you know, hunter-gatherer, kind of tribal almost. And it was kind of cool because it was like making a Hollywood movie poster. And I think it was just taking boxing into a very entertaining, exciting place, an elevated place. I mean, definitely the boxers have never been photographed that way, and they were really excited about it.”
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