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Jazz Street
While Fred Kaplan discusses the best jazz albums of 2011, Magnum takes a look back at some jazz greats. Jazz Street, first published in 1960, is photographer Dennis Stock’s ode to the American jazz scene of the era. NEW ORLEANS—Ernest Miller, nicknamed Kid Punch Miller, trumpet player and singer, returning home at 6 a.m., 1958.
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Book of the Week RFK Funeral Train by Paul Fusco Thirty-nine years ago this week in Los Angeles, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. A funeral train carried his body from New York City to Washington, D.C. In RFK Funeral Train, Paul Fusco documents the funeral train procession. Despite the hot weather, hundreds of thousands of people stood along the train tracks waiting to pay their respects. | Join the Fray © Marilyn Silverstone / Magnum Photos What do you think of these photos? Join the Fray, our reader discussion forum. By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, [the photographer] may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal. Constantine Manos |