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"Paul Fusco: RFK," published during the fortieth anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, is the long-awaited follow-up to Fusco's acclaimed "RFK Funeral Train," a body of work heralded as a contemporary classic. This historical new publication features more than 70 never-before-seen images, many selected from the untapped treasure trove of slides that comprise the Library of Congress' "Look" Magazine Collection.
As a staff photographer for "Look" magazine in 1968, Fusco was commissioned to document all of the events surrounding the funeral. In addition to capturing the thousands of Americans who stood by the railroad tracks to greet the funeral train carrying Kennedy's coffin, he also photographed the mourners gathered at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, as well as the dramatic night burial in Arlington National Cemetery. In this volume, newly discovered photographs are presented alongside classic images of the funeral train that have been seared into public consciousness from two previous iterations of the work: a 1999 limited edition and the 2000 trade edition, both long out-of-print.
"Paul Fusco: RFK" provides a new perspective on this legendary photographer's singular achievement. It also helps solidify the status of this classic body of work as one of the great efforts in photographic reportage and an incomparable document of this pivotal moment in U.S. history.
Paul Fusco, born in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1930 and a member of Magnum Photos since 1974, began his career photographing for the U.S. Signal Corps during the Korean War. He studied photojournalism at Ohio University and his work has been widely published and exhibited at venues including the Photographers' Gallery, London and the International Festival of Photojournalism, Perpignan, France.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, brother of Robert F. Kennedy, has served in the U.S. Senate since 1962.
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) wrote more than 30 books, garnering the Pulitzer Prize twice.
Evan Thomas is Editor at "Newsweek" and author of "Robert Kennedy: His Life."
Vicki Goldberg is a leading voice in the field of photography criticism; her essay collection "Light Matters" was published by Aperture in 2005.
As a staff photographer for "Look" magazine in 1968, Fusco was commissioned to document all of the events surrounding the funeral. In addition to capturing the thousands of Americans who stood by the railroad tracks to greet the funeral train carrying Kennedy's coffin, he also photographed the mourners gathered at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, as well as the dramatic night burial in Arlington National Cemetery. In this volume, newly discovered photographs are presented alongside classic images of the funeral train that have been seared into public consciousness from two previous iterations of the work: a 1999 limited edition and the 2000 trade edition, both long out-of-print.
"Paul Fusco: RFK" provides a new perspective on this legendary photographer's singular achievement. It also helps solidify the status of this classic body of work as one of the great efforts in photographic reportage and an incomparable document of this pivotal moment in U.S. history.
Paul Fusco, born in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1930 and a member of Magnum Photos since 1974, began his career photographing for the U.S. Signal Corps during the Korean War. He studied photojournalism at Ohio University and his work has been widely published and exhibited at venues including the Photographers' Gallery, London and the International Festival of Photojournalism, Perpignan, France.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, brother of Robert F. Kennedy, has served in the U.S. Senate since 1962.
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) wrote more than 30 books, garnering the Pulitzer Prize twice.
Evan Thomas is Editor at "Newsweek" and author of "Robert Kennedy: His Life."
Vicki Goldberg is a leading voice in the field of photography criticism; her essay collection "Light Matters" was published by Aperture in 2005.
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Paul Fusco, a member of Magnum Photos since 1974, began his career photographing for the U.S. Signal Core during the Korean War. He studied photojournalism at Ohio University and his work has been widely published and exhibited, including exhibitions at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, and the International Festival of Photojournalism, Perpignan, France.
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"Collectively, the images capture the American spirit and historical moment. A truly engaging photo publication edited with great care and attention." -- Debra Klomp Ching --Photo District News
"The images feature back-of-house, rail-yard settings; eloquent, poignant details; and a compelling mixture of largely working-class Americans whose colorful clothing pinpoints the era and season... Devoid of pomp yet permeated with emotion, this tribute has a deeply inspiring impact." -- Douglas F. Smith --Library Journal
"The immediacy of these unforgettable photographs is partly due to the blurring in the images as the train moves on by recording a sense of time passing also. Picking out the faces you can't help but try to imagine their thoughts. The sheer humanity in Fusco's photographs places this work in the 'classic.'" -- Laura Noble --London Independent Photography
"Fusco describes his subjects as 'stunned into disbelief,' and Americans have rarely looked so touchingly vulnerable. It's heartbreaking to see how bewildered everyone was as hope slipped away. No wonder Fusco never put his camera down; he was witnessing the end of innocence." -- Vince Aletti --Photograph Magazine
"I think it's a book all the cynics should look at... We would all be well advised to take a step back and to think about why it might not be such a bad thing to re-introduce the greater good into politics, to stop thinking only in terms of the 'bottom line', and to not cynically dismiss the rare politician who actually manages to inspire. Those people lining the train tracks in RFK are proof of a hunger for more than just pandering and cheap pseudo-solutions for problems that are never really fully explained - and that hunger might now be stronger than ever." -- Jörg Colberg --Conscientious blog
"The images feature back-of-house, rail-yard settings; eloquent, poignant details; and a compelling mixture of largely working-class Americans whose colorful clothing pinpoints the era and season... Devoid of pomp yet permeated with emotion, this tribute has a deeply inspiring impact." -- Douglas F. Smith --Library Journal
"The immediacy of these unforgettable photographs is partly due to the blurring in the images as the train moves on by recording a sense of time passing also. Picking out the faces you can't help but try to imagine their thoughts. The sheer humanity in Fusco's photographs places this work in the 'classic.'" -- Laura Noble --London Independent Photography
"Fusco describes his subjects as 'stunned into disbelief,' and Americans have rarely looked so touchingly vulnerable. It's heartbreaking to see how bewildered everyone was as hope slipped away. No wonder Fusco never put his camera down; he was witnessing the end of innocence." -- Vince Aletti --Photograph Magazine
"I think it's a book all the cynics should look at... We would all be well advised to take a step back and to think about why it might not be such a bad thing to re-introduce the greater good into politics, to stop thinking only in terms of the 'bottom line', and to not cynically dismiss the rare politician who actually manages to inspire. Those people lining the train tracks in RFK are proof of a hunger for more than just pandering and cheap pseudo-solutions for problems that are never really fully explained - and that hunger might now be stronger than ever." -- Jörg Colberg --Conscientious blog
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- PublisherAperture
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1597110795
- ISBN 13 9781597110792
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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