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Aperture is pleased to offer this very special limited-edition photograph from Paul Fusco's seminal work RFK Funeral Train. This photograph is released to coincide with the long-awaited follow-up to Fusco's acclaimed book of that work, which has been heralded as a contemporary classic. Paul Fusco: RFK (Aperture, September 2008) is published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination in Los Angeles while he was campaigning for the presidential nomination. This historic 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 photograph collection. This limited-edition photograph was selected from among these newly discovered images.

Robert F. Kennedy's death shook the country to its core and for millions of Americans, including Paul Fusco, his assassination seemed to represent the end of hope. In 1968 Fusco was a staff photographer for Look magazine. He was commissioned to document all the events surrounding the funeral, including the eight-hour journey from New York to Washington D.C. on the train that carried Kennedy's coffin. Shooting approximately 2,000 pictures from inside, Fusco had a unique vantage point, resulting in an extraordinarily powerful and affecting series of photographs that captured the thousands of Americans from every section of society—black, white, rich, poor—who stood by the railroad tracks to pay their final respects. Alongside Fusco's classic images of the funeral train that have been seared into the public consciousness, Paul Fusco: RFK presents these striking newly discovered photographs for the first time—and now one of these is made even more accessible through Aperture's limited-edition photograph program.