rene burri blackout new york colour Korea and later Peru

Korea and later Peru

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

Image size: 29 x 49 cm

Erich Salomon Prize awarded by the German Society for Photography

Title: Zwei Schimmel

rene burri blackout new york colour Korea and later PeruThe 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