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October 20
Paul Fusco
Lecture & Presentation, 9:55 am Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon
Center
Paul Fusco was born in Leominster, Massachusetts.
He became interested in photography around 1945 and pursued it as
a serious hobby, eventually gained some awareness and experience
as a photographer in the United States Army Signal Corps in Korea
in 1951-53. After the war he studied photojournalism at Ohio University
and received his B.F.A. in 1957. He moved to New York and started
his career as a staff photographer with LOOK Magazine.
Fusco worked as a staff photographer for Look until
1971. Most of his photography was of the many social issues that
were of major concern in the U.S. and in many other places in the
world. During that period he produced significant works on destitute
miners in Kentucky, Hispanic ghetto life in NY, runaway youths trying
to survive in NYC, cultural changes and experimentation and clashes
in California, everyday life across the U.S.: farming, Indian reservations,
small towns, migrant labor, Black life in the Mississippi delta,
religious proselitizing in the south and many other topics.
He also looked at life and social issues in other
countries: Russia, England, Israel, Egypt, Japan, Southeast Asia,
Brazil, Chile, Mexico and an extended study of the "Iron Curtain"
stretching from Northern Finland to Iran.
After LOOK folded Fusco approached Magnum Photos
and in 1973, became an associate and then a member in 1974. His
photography has been published widely in many major U.S. magazines:
Time, Life, Newsweek, NY Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Psychology
Today and others. Paul's work has also been widely published in
magazines throughout the world through Magnum Photos.
Mr. Fusco has spent most of his career trying to
understand what life is like and means to the people he works with
and to try to make the reality of those lives emotionally and intellectually
understandable to others from his photographs.
More
on Fusco and Magnum>>
Camera as Catalyst: Through the lens of the
Magnum Photographer
Coordinated by Leena Jayaswal
As history has been made, Magnum photographers
have been there: from Abbas’ photographs of the armed militants
outside the US Embassy in Iran, during the diplomat hostage crisis,
to Eli Reed’s members of the Nation of Islam standing in the
ruins of the Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles. Through their work,
this renowned cooperative of photographers have served as witnesses
to the world's history, conflict, people and places.
The Center for Social Media will host a series of
innovative workshops and lectures with Magnum photographers, getting
up close and personal with their work and their ideals. This series
recognizes the primary role of the camera as an agent of chronicling
our times and inspiring social change. Learn from the cutting edge,
uncompromising and precedent setting work that has set the agenda
for photographers worldwide for more than 50 years. The next presentation
will be in Fall 2004.
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