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Shooting Mark Spitz: Through the Lens Of Legendary Photographer Heinz Kluetmeier<\/strong><\/p>\n

PHOTOS COURTESY HEINZ KLUETMEIER\/ISHOF ARCHIVES<\/p>\n

About Heinz Kluetmeier<\/h3>\n

While swimming constitutes just a small portion of his incredible portfolio, no photographer has meant more to swimming history and the International Swimming Hall of Fame<\/a> than Heinz Kluetmeier<\/strong>. From the eras of Mark Spitz<\/strong> to Michael Phelps<\/strong>, he was there to persevere for posterity the great moments in swimming history. He is, perhaps, best known in the world of swimming for capturing the image that proved Phelps out-touched Milorad Cavic<\/strong> in the 100-meter butterfly at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. But in the world of photography, he is revered by the current generation of photographers, including Al Bello, Donald Miralle, Giorgio Scala, Simon Bruty and Mike Lewis, among many others, as a master.<\/p>\n

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Born in Berlin, Germany in 1943, but raised in Milwaukee, Wis., Heinz Kluetmeier was introduced to the idea of a career in photojournalism while he was making a name for himself in the local papers as a member of Custer High School\u2019s swimming and tennis teams\u2014and was working part-time as a copywriter for the local Associated Press.<\/p>\n

\"Heinz

Photo Courtesy: ISHOF Archive<\/p><\/div>\n

At the office, he also worked as a wire-photo operator and got to see hundreds of photographs. He started thinking he could do better than a lot of the photos he saw. Seeing his interest in photography, his parents bought him a Nikon S, and, as they say, the rest is history.<\/p>\n

Upon graduating from high school, Kluetmeier was offered a full-time job as a photographer with the Milwaukee Journal. But he was persuaded by his father to pursue a degree in engineering at Dartmouth College. After graduating from Dartmouth, Kluetmeier got married and opted for the financial security of a full-time job. But his wife, Donna, recognized how unhappy he was and encouraged him to return to photography.<\/p>\n

He went back to work at the Journal as a stringer for AP and started putting together a sports portfolio with the dream of landing a job at Sports Illustrated<\/em> in New York City.<\/p>\n

One of his early assignments for AP took him to Bloomington, Ind. to photograph Mark Spitz.<\/p>\n

THE GOLDEN BOY OF SWIMMING<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark Spitz had grown up in Sacramento, Calif., where he was a record-setting age group swimmer. He was introduced to competitive swimming by Ervin Z\u00e1dor<\/strong>, the famous Hungarian water polo player. Then, while training under Coach Sherm Chavoor, he literally rewrote the national 10, 12 and 14-and-under age group record book before his father, Arnold, relocated the family to Santa Clara so he and his sisters could train with George Haines.<\/p>\n

Mark broke onto the international scene in 1965 when he won four gold medals as a 15-year-old at the Maccabiah Games, in Tel Aviv, Israel. By 1967, experts were predicting he could win as many as six gold medals at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

But as SI reporter Jerry Kirshenbaum<\/strong> wrote, \u201cSuffering from turista, tonsilitis and an Olympic-size case of the jitters, Spitz ended with only two golds (both for relays) plus a silver and a bronze for finishing second and third in individual races. It was a medal haul that would have been prodigious for almost anybody else, but for Spitz it was failure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet this \u201cfailure\u201d would provide him with the experience and motivation he needed to make an even more ambitious run four years later.<\/p>\n

When the Games in Mexico City ended in October of 1968, Mark Spitz was set to begin his collegiate career in California in January. But at the last minute, he changed his mind and went to swim for Doc Counsilman at Indiana University. At about the same time Mark was making his NCAA debut as a Hoosier, a young staff photographer at the Milwaukee Journal arrived in Bloomington.<\/p>\n

MEETING MARK<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI had heard,\u201d said Heinz, \u201cthat early in his career, he had a reputation for being a spoiled brat, a misfit and a loner. That\u2019s not the man I came to know. From the first time I met him, I found him to be a nice guy, likable, cooperative, low-key, almost shy. He was also very handsome and photogenic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Mark

Photo Courtesy: Heinz Kluetmeier<\/p><\/div>\n

After that first meeting, Heinz photographed Spitz several more times at meets leading up to the Munich Olympic Games. At the 1971 U.S. Nationals, he photographed Mark with his father, Arnold, whose Lombardi-esque credo for Mark growing up was, \u201cSwimming isn\u2019t everything. Winning is!\u201d And Mark had pretty much lived up to it until the Olympic Games in Mexico City. But under the guidance of Doc Counsilman<\/strong>, Mark had found that there was more to life than winning and swimming\u2014and that understanding would produce what was at the time, the greatest achievement in Olympic history.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really liked Mark,\u201d says Heinz. \u201cIn fact, I liked all the swimmers who swam for Doc Counsilman. I loved watching him work. He cared about the people who swam for him. He treated them like human beings unlike another, perhaps better known coach in Bloomington\u201d (a reference to Hoosier basketball coach Bobby Knight).<\/p>\n

At the 1972 Olympic Trials, which were held in Chicago\u2019s Portage Park, Spitz won four individual events and qualified for three relay teams. With the possibility of him winning seven gold medals in Munich, Heinz was assigned to shoot Mark for an SI pre-Olympic cover.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that technique and technical stuff are absolutely irrelevant to the picture in terms of what you do as a photographer,\u201d says Kluetmeier. \u201cI think the most important thing is to have a vision, to have an emotional feeling, to care about what you\u2019re photographing, and to have something that\u2019s already there in your heart, in your eye.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor this picture of Spitz, I didn\u2019t want to show him swimming. Of course it was important for him to be in the water, but I wanted to capture how I saw him\u2014carefree, likable and handsome…exuding the confidence of a winner\u2014and I think I captured that. He was comfortable in front of the camera and was a delight to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n

MEMORIES OF MUNICH<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the swimming pool in Munich, Kluetmeier tried for days to get access to the pool deck\u2014for a unique point of view that other photographers could not get. Each time, the American delegate to FINA, Dr. Harold Henning, had made sure no photographers got on deck. But on the final day of competition, Henning was nowhere to be seen. Instead, Heinz found a German in charge and, being fluent in German, he talked his way onto the deck in time to capture the most memorable moment in Mark Spitz\u2019 illustrious career.<\/p>\n

Before swimming in the final event, the 400 meter medley relay, Mark\u2019s teammates talked about what they should do for Mark.<\/p>\n

\"Mark

Photo Courtesy: Heinz Kluetmeier<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cHere was a guy who had done something no one will ever do again (seven gold medals, seven world records), said Jerry Heidenreich, \u201cand so we decided to pick him up on our shoulders and carry him around the pool.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it was going on,\u201d Mark said later. \u201cTo me, that was really exciting because I felt at that time, they kind of respected what I had done. I enjoy looking at that picture more than the picture of me holding seven medals, or whatever it was, because to me, you can\u2019t go out and win a race and command respect, and I felt that it was a mutual feeling, of camaraderie amongst the team members, and I was really proud.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of celebrating on the town after winning his seventh gold medal,\u201d remembers Heinz, \u201cMark quietly reflected on his accomplishments over a quiet dinner with me and SI reporter Jerry Kirschenbaum. After dinner, we dropped him off at the Olympic Village. It was Sept. 4, 1972. At about the same time, the Palestinian \u2018Black September\u2019 terrorists were in the process of entering the Village and taking the Israeli athletes hostage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Less than a year later, Heinz called up Mark to ask if he could come to Mark\u2019s wedding and take some pictures. \u201cOf course,\u201d Mark told him. The casual photo of Mark and his bride to-be, Suzy, before the wedding was featured on the cover of SI on May 14, 1973.<\/p>\n

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DASH FOR CASH<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1989, Tom Jager<\/strong> and Matt Biondi<\/strong> dreamed up their \u201cDash For Cash\u201d professional swim challenge.<\/p>\n

\"Dash

Photo Courtesy: Heinz Kluetmeier<\/p><\/div>\n

At the time, Spitz, at the age of 40, was still the most recognizable name in swimming. He was a successful businessman and was doing commentary for ABC Sports. But he wanted to explore what an athlete could do in the sport after the age of 30.<\/p>\n

Mark was appearing in ads for Clairol that featured aging athletes touting anti-gray hair color. The company jumped in by creating a \u201cmade-for-TV\u201d challenge on ABC\u2019s Wide World of Sports with Mark against Jager and Biondi in a 50 meter butterfly.<\/p>\n

In the first race, \u201cMark Spitz\u2019s well-advertised head of hair, the promotional point of his match race with Tom Jager, held up perfectly. After 50 meters of chlorine, it was still jet black, proving that you certainly can fool \u2018Mother Nature\u2019 out of the pool. But in the pool, it was another matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

And there to capture the end of Mark\u2019s short-lived professional swimming career was Heinz Kluetmeier.<\/p>\n

Bruce Wigo, historian and consultant at the International Swimming Hall of Fame, served as president\/CEO of IHOF from 2005-17.<\/em><\/p>\n

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