Paul Fusco was born in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1930. He received his B.F.A. in photojournalism from Ohio University and went directly to work for Look magazine as a staff photographer and traveled extensively in South East Asia, Mexico, India, Europe and Russia. In 1974, he joined Magnum Photos.
His work has appeared in many domestic and international publications such as LIFE, Time, Newsweek, the Sunday Times and Paris Match. He has exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Newseum, New York and the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. RFK Funeral Train was published by Umbrage Editions in 2001, with an introduction by Norman Mailer. And an updated and expanded edition will be published by Aperture in September 2008. Most recently, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York acquired six of the RFK Funeral Train phtoographs.
| EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2008 | RFK Funeral Train: Paul Fusco, M+B, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2006 | Brighton Triennial of Photography, Brighton, England |
| 20/30 Vision: An Anniversary Celebration, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2003 | RFK: Funeral Train, Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA |
| 2002 | Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe New Mexico |
| Photography: In Equilibrium between Aesthetic and Document, International Festival, Rome, Italy | |
| Aftermath: Photography on the Wake of September 11th, International Center for Photography, New York, NY | |
| RFK: Funeral Train, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL | |
| 2001 | RFK: Funeral Train, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2000 | RFK: Funeral Train, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland |
| Essaies Sur Le Monde, Bibliotheque National de France, Paris, France | |
| 1999 | RFK: Funeral Train, The Photographer's Gallery, London, England |
| 1996 | In Our Time: Magnum Photographers, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL |
| In Our Time: Magnum Photographers, Barbican, London, England | |
| COLLECTIONS | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
| Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL | |
| Martin Margulies, Collection, Miami, FL | |
| International Center for Photography, New York, NY | |
| Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France | |
| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | The New York Times, Sunday, June 1, 2008 |
| Sense Relaxation: Below the Mind, 1968 | |
| La Causa: The California Grape Strike, 1970 | |
| What To Do Until The Messiah Comes, 1971 | |
| The Photo Essay: Paul Fusco & Will McBride, 1974 | |
| Marina & Ruby: Training a Filly With Love, 1977 | |
| RFK Funeral Train: Magnum/Umbrage press, 2000 | |
| Chernobyl: Legacy, 2001 | |
| Time Magazine | |
| Newsweek Magazine | |
| New York Times | |
| Look Magazine | |
| The Washington Post | |
| The New Yorker | |