Paul Fusco RFK Funeral Train
Exhibition Opening and Book Signing Thursday, September 4, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Exhibition on View:Thursday, September 04, 2008 — Saturday, October 04, 2008Danziger Projects521 West 26th StreetNew York, New York 212-629-6778
As a staff photographer for Look magazine in 1968, Fusco was commissioned to document all the events surrounding the funeral of Robert F. Kennedy. In addition to capturing the thousands of Americans who stood by the railroad tracks to greet the funeral train carrying Kennedy¹s coffin, he also photographed the mourners gathered at St. Patrick¹s Cathedral in New York, as well as the dramatic night burial in Arlington National Cemetery.Coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy¹s assassination, and just prior to the publication of the Aperture book RFK, James Danziger Projects presents an exhibition of this extraordinary body of work by Magnum photographer Paul Fusco, including many never before seen or published images selected from the untapped treasure trove of slides that comprise the Library of Congress¹s Look magazine collection.This exhibition, and the Aperture book, collectively provide a new perspective on this legendary photographer¹s 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.
