Paul Fusco

Photography career Fusco first worked for Look Magazine in New York City.

His photography often documented social issues and injustices, such as poverty, ghetto life, the early days of the HIV crisis, and cultural experimentation across America.

His 1966 photos of California's Delano grape strike documented migrant farmworkers' struggles to form a union, supported by Cesar Chavez. The photos were released as a book, with text by George D. Horowitz, titled La Causa: The California Grape Strike.

Fusco moved to Mill Valley, California in the 1970s. In 1973 he became an associate of Magnum Photos and a full member a year later.

Fusco also worked internationally covering events in Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In the late 1990s, he spent two months making photographs of the lingering effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Belarus, eventually published in the book Chernobyl Legacy, which featured a foreword by Kofi Annan. In the early 2000s, Fusco pursued a personal project he called "Bitter Fruit," documenting the funerals of US service members killed in the Iraq War.

He left Mill Valley for New Jersey in 1993, but later returned to California, in 2009, to live in Marin County.

Many of his photographs are in the Magnum Photos archive currently held at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Two hundred of his photographs of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and Cesar Chavez, taken during a farm worker's strike in Delano, California, are held by the Library of Congress, as are 1,800 Kodachrome slides taken in June 1968 from the funeral train carrying Robert Kennedy's body from New York City to Washington, D.C., for burial in Arlington National Cemetery.

Books Sense Relaxation: Below the Mind. US: Collier, 1968; La Causa: The California Grape Strike. US: Collier, 1970. What to Do Until the Messiah Comes. US: Collier, 1971; The Photo Essay: Paul Fusco & Will McBride. US: Crowell, 1974; Marina & Ruby: Training a Filly with Love. US: William Morrow, 1977; RFK Funeral Train. Umbrage/Magnum US, 2000; Chernobyl Legacy. US: de. Mo, 2001; Paul Fusco: RFK. New York: Aperture, 2008;