Paul Fusco: RFK
by Edward Kennedy, Norman Mailer, Evan Thomas
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Author: Edward Kennedy, Evan Thomas, Norman MailerPhotographer: Paul Fusco
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-01
ISBN: 1597110795
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Aperture
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Book Review: incredibly moving & tear inducing words & photographs
Summary: 5 Stars
RFK, by Paul Fusco (224 pgs., 1968, 1969, 2000, 2008). This is an incredibly moving, tear-inducing, very large coffee table sized photography book. Along with those photographs it contains a very moving tribute to Bobby Kennedy by his then sole surviving brother, Sen. Teddy Kennedy. It also contains very evocative essays by Norman Mailer, Evan Thomas & Vicki Goldberg.
The year of 2008 was the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Senator Bobby Kennedy by the despicable non-human animal whose name will not pass my lips nor be written or typed by my fingers. May his name be erased from history. Sadly, he will always remain a footnote in history. Killers become famous merely for killing. That is one sad statement.
Fusco was asked to go through his photo files again for this anniversary & he came up with many never before published photos; especially of the people along the route of the funeral train carrying Bobby's body from NYC to Arlington Cemetery. The family photos of some of the Kennedy clan kneeling in grief inside St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC, were gut wrenching. Seeing a young Caroline & an even younger John, Jr., next to their Mom with such sad faces, just a mere five years after the assassination of their own father, is heartbreaking. The close ups of bystanders along the train route, saying their last goodbyes to Bobby are equally heart rending. Again, these photos illustrate how Bobby was the last major political figure to unite so many disparate elements in American society. His support cut across all racial & ethnic lines, all economic strata, all religious groups & even political divides which now seem set in stone. We are so much the worse because of his loss.
Summary of Paul Fusco: RFK
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.
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