Research Catalog

Title

Robert F. Kennedy funeral train : the people's view / Rein Jelle Terpstra.

Author

Terpstra, Rein Jelle

Publication

• [Amsterdam] : Fw:Books, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fusco, Paul
• Strauss, David Levi
• Bakker, Taco Hidde
• Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection)

Description

142 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm +

Summary

"On June 8, 1968, amidst a year wracked by division and violence, the casket of assassinated Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was transported on a funeral train from New York City to Washington, DC. Hundreds of thousands of people united along the tracks in a spontaneous expression of grief. [The book] presents a photographic reconstruction of this historic train journey from the people's perspective. It offers a counterview to the famous series by photojournalist Paul Fusco, who photographed the crowds from aboard the funeral train. Visual artist Rein Jelle Terpstra has devotedly collected the mourner's snapshots, film stills, and accounts of that muggy summer day. By linking them together along a timeline in the spirit of the people who lined the tracks, this book aims to add a modest new chapter to the American collective memory. This volume includes an essay by poet and art critic David Levi Strauss on photography, remembrance, and the hope that "Bobby" embodied. Aditionally it presents a pull-out section with ten-never before-published Kodachrome slides from Fusco's RFK series, with an essay by writer and researcher Taco Hidde Bakker."--Page 4 of cover

Subject

• Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 > Death and burial > Pictorial works
• Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
• Funeral rites and ceremonies > United States > Pictorial works
• Railroad trains > United States > Pictorial works
• Documentary photography > United States
• Artists' books

Genre/Form

• Pictorial works.
• Artists' books.
• Artists' books – Netherlands – 21st century.

Note

• In slipcase.
• One booklet inserted.
• Edition of 1500 copies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

MEMZ+ (Terpstra) 21-2579

ISBN

• 9789490119607
• 9490119601

OCLC

1048323157

Author

Terpstra, Rein Jelle, artist.

Title

Robert F. Kennedy funeral train : the people's view / Rein Jelle Terpstra.

Publisher

[Amsterdam] : Fw:Books, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Note

Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection).

Added Author

Fusco, Paul, photographer.

Strauss, David Levi. Even in our sleep, pain, which we cannot forget: the mourning of Bobby Kennedy in image and retrospect.

Bakker, Taco Hidde. Finding Fusco.

Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection)

Research Call Number

MEMZ+ (Terpstra) 21-2579