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Bud Lee and Newark during the Long, Hot Summer of 1967

In July of 1967, after the arrest and beating of African American cab driver John Smith by the local police force, the city of Newark, New Jersey erupted. Over 5 days, 26 people were killed by police gunfire, hundreds more were injured, thousands were arrested, and millions of dollars of property was destroyed. Photojournalist Bud Lee captured the urban war zone the city became in those fateful days. His photographs have now been published in The War is Here: Newark 1967.
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Photojournalist Bud Lee can be considered one of the great, but overlooked, American photographers from the late 20th century. Between 1967 and 1974 his work appeared in magazines such as Life, Esquire, and Rolling Stone. He covered the first legal a...

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Robert E. Gerhardt

Robert Gerhardt is a New York based photographer and freelance writer. His photographs and writings have been published nationally and internationally including in The Hong Kong Free Press, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Diplomat.

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