Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is a time and age when you paid homage irrespective of political leanings...and it shows in the photographs. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Robert D. Baron <rbaron at concentric.net> wrote: > Not being one to let a thread drift off alone and forgotten, I'll add > to it the following from the Magnum site, picked up a few minutes ago > from their Twitter feed: > > "On June 5th, 1968, Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles as > he campaigned for the presidential nomination. Kennedy's body was > flown to New York City for a memorial service at St. Patrick?s > Cathedral and then carried by train from New York to Washington D.C. > for burial at Arlington National Cemetery. Hundreds of thousands of > mourners lined the railway tracks to pay their final respects to > Kennedy. On board the train was Magnum photographer Paul Fusco, on > assignment for LOOK Magazine. From inside the train, Fusco took some > 2000 pictures of the mourners - black, white, rich, poor, in large > groups and on their own. The resulting images are one of the most > powerful and affecting series of photographs ever taken. This > commemorative edition of 20 images was printed in 2008 on the occasion > of the 40th anniversary of Kennedy?s assassination." > > http://events.magnumphotos.com/exhibition/rfk-funeral-train-rediscovered > > That would be 2000 images shot in how many hours it took the train to > make that journey? ?4 or 5? ?Edited down to 20. > > --Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >