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The train: June 8, 1968 : RFK's last journey = le dernier voyage de Robert F. Kennedy

  • Alternate title

    • Train : RFK's last journey
    • Dernier voyage de Robert F. Kennedy
    • RFK's last journey

Abstract

On June 8, 1968, the body of Robert F. Kennedy was taken by a funeral train from New York City to Washington DC to be buried in the Arlington cemetery. From a train window, Paul Fusco took photographs of the grieving public lining the route. Since 2014, artist Rein Jelle Terpstra has sought many of the same spectators, and has been collecting their snapshots and film footage of themselves and of the train, for his project "The People's View." Also inspired by the original images of Fusco, artist Philippe Parreno arranged for filming a reenactment of citizens watching the passing of the funeral train.

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Publisher

  • Publication

    Paris: Éditions Textuel, [2018]

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  • Subject

  • Period

    1968

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  • Translated from

Classification

  • ISBN

    • 9782845976542
    • 2845976542

Annotations / title notes

  • Notes

    • "Translations ..., Fabienne Adler, Rose Vekony."--Page 144.
    • "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition 'The train : RFK's last journey', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, March 17-June 10, 2018; Rencontres d'Arles, July 2-September 23, 2018"--Page 2.
    • Includes introductory essay, and interviews with Fusco and Terpstra in English, plus French translations. Includes interview with Parreno in French, plus English translation.
    • "Curators of the exhibition and editors of the book: Clément Chéroux ..., and Linde B. Lehtinen."--Page 2.

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