The War Is Here: Newark 1967 - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1736309366 ISBN 13 : 9781736309360

Editeur : ZE Books, 2023

Synopsis

With a foreword by the Honorable Ras J. Baraka, 40th Mayor of Newark, NJ, The War Is Here is Life magazine photographer Bud Lee’s dramatic, empathetic, and still shocking record of the Newark uprising of 1967―a pivotal moment in a summer of protest and rage across the country, whose reverberations we still feel today.

July 1967. After the arrest, beating, and imprisonment of cab driver John Smith by local police, the city of Newark―already a tinderbox―became a hotbed of protest and retaliation. Over five long days, 26 people were killed by police gunfire and hundreds more were injured, thousands arrested, and millions of dollars in property damage caused. The scars on the city remained for decades.

Bud Lee, a 26-year-old novice photographer for Life magazine, was called upon to cover the civic uprising in Newark as it broke out. Lee and Life reporter Dale Wittner arrived to find a majority Black population―already struggling under a corrupt local government and a vicious, authoritarian police force―trying to persevere in extraordinary circumstances: stores burned and looted; a city under siege by trigger-happy city and state police; and the young, inexperienced, and exhausted National Guardsmen sent to patrol it day and night.

The War Is Here documents the several days Bud Lee spent in Newark. These photographs capture life in a city transformed into an urban war zone. Over half a century later, Bud Lee’s raw, desolate, and empathetic photographs of the people of Newark, at a turning point in the city’s history, continue to resonate: a testament to their resilience and fortitude.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bud Lee (1941-2015) was a self-taught photographer, who first took up a camera professionally in the military and received fine art training at the National Academy in New York. He had an idiosyncratic eye unconstrained by the conventions of documentary photography. Between 1967 and 1974, he worked on assignment for Life, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and many other publications, somehow finding himself at the centre of some of the biggest stories of the time. An outsider who got insider access, his work is poetic and painterly, occasionally droll and irreverent. The War Is Here is the first book to collect his photographs.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ZE Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1736309366
• ISBN 13: 9781736309360
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Éditeur: Campion Chris
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• Personne responsable: non disponible