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Robert Kennedy funeral train photos

posted by Jason Kottke   Jun 06, 2008

In July 1968, a train delivered the body of Robert Kennedy from NYC to Washington D.C. so that he could be buried in Arlington National Cemetery next to his brother. Photographer Paul Fusco was on that train and shot a bunch of photos of the hundreds of thousands of people that spontaneously turned up along the train route to mourn Kennedy, photos that were recently rediscovered. Fusco narrates a slideshow of the photos.

Paul Fusco, Robert Kennedy Funeral Train Photos

The amazing photos will be on display at Danziger Projects from June 6 - July 31…Danziger has more about the photos — which he calls “my favorite body of work in photography” — on his blog.

I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves, but I’ll also tell you the only area where Paul and I disagreed. For Paul, the event and the photographs represented the end of hope. To me they represent the indomitability of the American spirit.

Either way, the photos are powerful but also show the ordinary American-ness of that time period.

Powerful photo essay on Chernobyl, 20 years after

posted by Jason Kottke   Apr 26, 2006

Powerful photo essay on Chernobyl, 20 years after the accident. Photographer Paul Fusco says the damage was so great that he thought he was looking at “a different race of people”. (thx, lisa)