Paul Fusco

Chernobyl Legacy

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Chernobyl Legacy is a deeply powerful and moving book that portrays the terrible consequences of the greatest technological disaster of the twentieth century – the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.

On April 26, 1986, the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl, Ukraine exploded, leaving more than 56 thousand square kilometres in 19 regions contaminated. Almost seven million lives were and continue to be affected. It entailed numerous human sacrifices, undermined people’s health and led to irreversible environmental devastation, all of which persist today.

Chernobyl Legacy is a haunting document of the lives that were ruined, in particular those of the unborn and young children, most of who have severe genetic disorders and a host of lethal cancers. The book has essays by Adi Roche, founder of the Chernobyl Children’s Project; Michael Douglas, United Nations Messenger for Peace, and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Anan.

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First Edition 
Publisher: de.MO
Publication Year: 2001
Format: Softcover
Pages: 228
Size: 11.8 x 8.8 inches (300 x 224 mm)

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Paul Fusco

Paul Fusco was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, in 1930. He worked as a photographer with the United States Army Signal Corps in Korea from 1951 to 1953, before studying photojournalism at Ohio University, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1957. He moved to New York City and started his career as a staff photographer with Look magazine. In this role, he produced important reportages on social issues in the US, including the plight of destitute miners in Kentucky, Latino ghetto life in New York City, cultural experimentation in California, African-American life in the Mississippi delta, religious proselytizing in the South, and migrant laborers. He also worked in England, Israel, Egypt, Japan, Southeast Asia, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico, and he made an extended study of the Iron Curtain countries, from northern Finland to Iran.

Fusco moved to Mill Valley, California, in 1970. After Look closed down in 1971, Fusco approached Magnum Photos, becoming an associate in 1973 and a full member the following year. His photography has been published widely in major US magazines, including Time, Life, Newsweek, the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and Psychology Today, as well as in other publications worldwide.

Fusco’s later career focus was photographing the lives of the oppressed. Among his subjects were people living with AIDS in California, homelessness and the welfare system in New York, the American military victims of the Iraq War, and the Zapatista uprising in the Mexican state of Chiapas. He also worked on a long-term project documenting Belarussians sickened by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl explosion.

His most acclaimed work was the result of a Look assignment in 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated and his body was carried by train from New York to Washington, DC. Many of those unpublished images eventually appeared in the book Paul Fusco: RFK (and two more expanded editions), inspired an HBO documentary, and were exhibited around the world. A hugely successful installation of the photos, known as The Train, was shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2018.

Paul Fusco died in July 2020 in San Anselmo, California.