DESCRIPTION:
Title: Upper West Side
Artist: Paul Fusco
Year: 1968
Place: New York, USA
Size: 13 x 13 cm
Signature: Sì
Stamp: Yes
Edition: Square Print, Magnum Photos
ARTIST
Paul Fusco was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, in 1930. He worked as photographer for the Signal Corps of the US army
in Korea from 1951 to 1953. He then studied photojournalism at the Ohio University, where he graduated in Fine Arts in 1957.
He moved to New York where he began his career as a staff photographer for the Look magazine. In this role, he produced many
reportages on social issues in the United States, including the plight of destitute coal miners in Kentucky, life in the latino ghettos
of New York City, the cultural experimentation in California, African-American life in the Mississippi Delta, religious proselytism in the South and migrant workers.
He worked also in England, Israel, Egypt, Japan, Southeast Asia, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, and made an in-depth study of the Iron Curtain countries, from Northern
Finland to Northern Iran.
In 1970, he moved to Fusco Mill Valley, in California. After Look closed in 1971, Fusco moved closer to Magnum Photos, becoming an associate in 1973 and a full title member the following year.
His photographs have been widely published in leading US magazines, including Time, Life, Newsweek, New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones and Psychology Today, as well as other publications
around the world.
The next goal in Fusco's career was to photograph the lives of the oppressed. His subjects have included people living with AIDS in California, the homeless and the welfare system in New York,
American military casualties in Iraq's war and the Zapatista uprising in the Mexican state of Chiapas and a long-term project documenting sick Belarusians after Chernobyl.
