"OLD NEWS: RESURRECTION CITY" par Jill FREEDMAN. Edition Grossman, New York. 1970. Imprimé aux USA. Petit in-4, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée photo (état d'usage). 144 pages. Texte en anglais illustré de 199 reproductions photographiques noir & blanc, pleine page pour une majorité et quelques-unes en double page, par Jill Freedman autour de la "Poor People's Campaign" organisée en 1968 à Washington DC.

 

"I knew I had to shoot the Poor Peoples Campaign when they murdered Martin Luther Ring, Jr. I had to see what was happening, to record it and be part of iti I felt so bad. Besides, it sounded too good to miss. So I went and had one of the times of my life, and this is my trip. And I never realized how much it had become a part of me until I was writing this and saying we and us and feeling homesick. Which is what Resurrection City was all about. Of course, it was old stuff from the start. Another nonviolent demonstration. Another march on Washington. Another army camping, calling on a government that acts like the telephone company. Even poverty is ancient history. Always have been poor people, still are, always will be. Because governments are run by ambitious men of no imagination. Whose priorities are so twisted that they burn food while people starve. And we let them. So that history doesn't change much but the names. Nothing protects the innocent. And no news is new."

 

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