rene burri blackout new york colour modern elegance

modern elegance

Erich Salomon Prize awarded by the German Society for Photography

Gas in Newark

United States

Size without passe-partout and side margins: 50 x 47 cm

rene burri blackout new york colour modern eleganceThe lights go out in New York on November 9, 1965. A power outage hits the city of millions and with it large parts of Canada as well as the federal states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Jersey and the state of New York at around 5: 30 p. m. At this point, MAGNUM photographer Ren BURRI is in the studio of his friend New York photographer Elliott ERWITT. Equipped with his Leica and eight rolls of film, he