SIGNED; Paul Fusco, Robert Francis 'Bobby' Kennedy, Norman Mailer - RFK Funeral train (SPECIAL EDITION WITH PRINT, BLACK BOX, STRONGLY LIMITED) - 2000

SUPER SCARCE, STRONGLY LIMITED SPECIAL EDITION BY MAGNUM AGENCY -
of the famous photo series of the Robert F. Kennedy funeral train by legendary Magnum photographer
Paul Fusco (1930-2020).

The edition comes with the original big-size print by Magnum agency in the original big black box by Magnum agency and comes with the book from 2000, mentioned 'first edition' inside and signed by the artist with beautiful silver pen.

- Martin Parr/Gerry Badger, The photobook, vol 2, page 46/47.
- Carole Naggar, Fred Ritchin, 'Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné', pages 118 and 119

LIKE NEW AND UNREAD CONDITION.

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"I want the viewers to be moved into the lives of the people that they are looking at; the visual experience is incredibly emotional."
- Paul Fusco -

For more informations about the photographer please go to the end of this description.

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'On June 8, 1968, Robert Kennedy's coffin was put on a train twenty cars long in New York and taken slowly to Washington, D.C. for burial in the Arlington Memorial Cemetery. Paul Fusco, then a staff photographer for Look, was on that train, and the pictures he took of people who lined the tracks along the way fill this moving book. These emotional photographs, many never-before-seen, remember the urgency and tragedy of Bobby Kennedy's assassination and the moving farewell from hundreds of thousands of people who stood patiently in the searing heat along roadsides down the east coast to watch his funeral train pass slowly by just as Abraham Lincoln's had one hundred and three years before.'
(from the publisher)

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Magnum, New York. Published in association with Umbrage Editions. 2000. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with original dustjacket and with print (not signed and not numbered and blank on the rear side, as issued). Box and print: 355 x 275 mm. Book: 286 x 180 mm. 128 pages. 54 colour photos. Photos: Paul Fusco. Text: Norman Mailer, Evan Thomas and Edward M. Kennedy. Text in English.

Condition:
Book and dustjacket new, mint, unread; only opened once for the signature (protected in the box). Print fresh and flawless (protected by the official plastic envelope and by the box since publication date). Box very fresh, complete with no tears and with no missing parts; on the front with light trace of use and with some creases at the right edge (happens very often). Overall near mint, near perfect condition.

FANTASTIC, SUPER RARE COLLECTOR'S ITEM - IN LIKE NEW AND UNREAD CONDITION.

'Paul Fusco was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, in 1930. He worked as a photographer with the United States Army Signal Corps in Korea from 1951 to 1953, before studying photojournalism at Ohio University, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1957. He moved to New York City and started his career as a staff photographer with Look magazine. In this role, he produced important reportages on social issues in the US, including the plight of destitute miners in Kentucky, Latino ghetto life in New York City, cultural experimentation in California, African-American life in the Mississippi delta, religious proselytizing in the South, and migrant laborers. He also worked in England, Israel, Egypt, Japan, Southeast Asia, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico, and he made an extended study of the Iron Curtain countries, from northern Finland to Iran.
Fusco moved to Mill Valley, California, in 1970. After Look closed down in 1971, Fusco approached Magnum Photos, becoming an associate in 1973 and a full member the following year. His photography has been published widely in major US magazines, including Time, Life, Newsweek, the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and Psychology Today, as well as in other publications worldwide.
Fusco’s later career focus was photographing the lives of the oppressed. Among his subjects were people living with AIDS in California, homelessness and the welfare system in New York, the American military victims of the Iraq War, and the Zapatista uprising in the Mexican state of Chiapas. He also worked on a long-term project documenting Belarussians sickened by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl explosion.
His most acclaimed work was the result of a Look assignment in 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated and his body was carried by train from New York to Washington, DC. Many of those unpublished images eventually appeared in the book Paul Fusco: RFK (and two more expanded editions), inspired an HBO documentary, and were exhibited around the world. A hugely successful installation of the photos, known as The Train, was shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2018.
Paul Fusco died in July 2020 in San Anselmo, California.'
(website Magnum agency)