Paul Fusco: RFK (Hardcover)

by Edward Kennedy (Author), Norman Mailer (Author), Evan Thomas (Author), Vicki Goldberg (Author), Paul Fusco (Photographer)

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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.

About the Author
Paul Fusco was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, in 1930. A member of Magnum Photos since 1974, he 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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Aperture; Reprint edition (September 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597110795
• ISBN-13: 978-1597110792
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #59,927 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable, September 27, 2008

By	Charles Junkerman (Palo Alto, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a profoundly moving book. Each photo is a revelation. I've never looked at individual photographs so long or seen so much in my life. A real experience.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars moving, November 25, 2008

By	William G. (IL) - See all my reviews

These images resonate. Sadness and hope were two emotions I felt while examining the photos. Very well done and effective in capture the time and emotion of the nation following the assassination.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unforgettable memories, November 17, 2008

By	Gerald Santucci (Brussels, Belgium) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was 14 when RFK was assassinated. Despite the fact I'm French and was living in Paris, I had followed all RFK's campaign since his announcement on March 16th, 1968. I had had grief after the Oregon primary, lost to Sen. Eugene McCarthy, yet high expectations for the California primary and of course the next stages. "Bobby" was the hope of a whole generation. There are no words to tell the unspeakable but he was a very respected man, one who could go everywhere in the U.S., including in Black ghettos and Indian reservations, thrilling audiences, moving people forward. Fusco's book successfully reports on the tragedy and trauma of RFK's assassination. Hundreds of thousands of people stood quietly, hand to heart, in the heat of that Spring to pay their respects to "a president who never was". It was one of those rare instances when a nation - and actually people from the whole world - comes together, when individuals from all horizons and backgrounds shared a respect for a leader whom, they believed, could have reconciled the whole country and put it back on track.