Rfk - 9781597110792

Paul Fusco: RFK, published during the fortieth anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, is the long-awaited follow-up to Paul Fusco's acclaimed RFK Funeral Train, a body of work that has been heralded as a contemporary classic. This historic new publication features 120 images, including more than seventy never-before-published, many selected from the untapped treasure trove of slides that comprise the Library of Congress's LOOK Magazine Collection.
As a staff photographer for LOOK magazine in 1968, Fusco was commissioned to document 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 from New York City to Washington, D.C., he also photographed the mourners gathered that morning at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, as well as the dramatic night burial in Arlington National Cemetery. Newly discovered photographs are presented alongside classic images of the funeral train that have been seared into public consciousness from two pervious iterations of the work.
Paul Fusco: RFK provides a new perspective on this legendary photographer's remarkable 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.