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The Family Road Trip
In 1959, photographer Erich Hartmann took his camera along on his family’s cross-country road trip and created a delightful document on the all-American summer open-road tradition. NEW YORK CITY—West 97th Street. The beginning of a cross-country trip in a red Rambler, 1959.
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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. With photography, I like to create fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist. Martin Parr |