Copyright Fusco/Magnum Photos

In the days following the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, photographer Paul Fusco, on assignment for Look Magazine, photographed the hundreds of thousands of mourners. From aboard the funeral train transporting Kennedy’s coffin from New York to D.C. Fusco captured with his camera the crowds of people waiting by the side of the railroad tracks to pay their last respects.

A monograph of this powerful and classic body of work was published by Aperture in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s death, and an exhibition organized by Magnum Photos is now on view at the Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach, Florida through May 2nd.

If you are in the area take advantage of this great opportunity to view an important photographic document of American history and a defining work for this accomplished photographer.

RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
February 13 – May 2, 2010

Norton Museum of Art
1451 S. Olive Avenue
West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Buy Paul Fusco’s RFK

Buy a limited edition print from the RFK series

New book from Aperture making headlines: Paul Fusco: RFK has been featured in Publishers Weekly, The New York Times Magazine, CNN, and FOX News.

Paul Fusco: RFK, published during the fortieth anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination in Los Angeles while campaigning for the Presidential nomination, is the long-awaited follow-up to Fusco’s acclaimed RFK Funeral Train, a body of work heralded as a contemporary classic. This historical new publication features over seventy never-before-seen images, many selected from the untapped treasure trove of slides that comprise the Library of Congress’s Look magazine Collection.

The new book will be published in September. Included are a tribute by Edward M. Kennedy and essays by Evan Thomas, Norman Mailer, and Vicki Goldberg.

Hear Fusco talk about his experience in this slideshow from The New York Times.

The work is now on view at Danziger Projects.

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