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Lot 187: PAUL FUSCO

Est: £700 GBP - £1,000 GBPSold:
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomMay 19, 2009

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PAUL FUSCO
RFK Funeral Train. New York: Magnum Photos and Umbrage Editions, 2000.

Oblong quarto (180 x 280 mm). 68 colour photographs. Original photo-illustrated boards and dust-jacket. Provenance: Paul Fusco (presentation inscription to:) -- Norman Mailer (American author, 1923-2007).

FIRST TRADE EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY FUSCO TO NORMAN MAILER, who contributed an introductory essay: 'Dear Norman, I deeply appreciate your participation in this book. The eloquence, beauty, and emotion of your thoughts and words add a great power and truth to the memory of Bobby'. Preceded by a printed-on-demand paper-bound edition of 300 copies with rather poorer reproductions. Cf. The Photobook, vol. II, pp.46-7 ('brilliant'; 'a memorable book').

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Auction Details

Photobooks

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Christie's
May 19, 2009, 02:00 PM WET

85 Old Brompton Road, London, LDN, SW7 3LD, UK