Fine Print: The Cockettes backstage at the Anderson Theater #5. New York City, 1971 Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm)

Fine Print: The Cockettes backstage at the Anderson Theater #5. New York City, 1971 Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm)

This landmark book offers a synthesis of celebrated Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas’s views on her work and the role of the documentary photographer

Jim considers it an assembled “family album” of his photographic encounters during the 9 years of this project and evidence of the existence of people who would otherwise be forgotten

at least for a moment

They were young

We were crossing and they said

“The contrast was smashing

These contact prints offer the opportunity to own a piece of Magnum's history

secular mysticism evoking Artaud or Bacon

where he took this photograph of villagers collecting scrap metal from the wreckage of a crashed spacecraft surrounded by thousands of white butterflies

” reads a quote from Paul Fusco on the final page of his critically-acclaimed photo-book RFK Funeral Train

traveled to Vienna to make photographs of the Queen during the trip

leaning instead towards a more allegorical view of the contemporary moment