The Sistine Chapel
On this day in 1512, the Michelangelo frescoes in the Sistine Chapel were first unveiled to the public. In 1949, Magnum co-founder David “Chim” Seymour turned his camera on viewers of the great masterpiece. VATICAN CITY—Inside the Sistine Chapel, 1949.
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Book of the Week  RFK Funeral Train by Paul Fusco Thirty-nine years ago this week in Los Angeles, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. A funeral train carried his body from New York City to Washington, D.C. In RFK Funeral Train, Paul Fusco documents the funeral train procession. Despite the hot weather, hundreds of thousands of people stood along the train tracks waiting to pay their respects. | Join the Fray  © Marilyn Silverstone / Magnum Photos What do you think of these photos? Join the Fray, our reader discussion forum. A photograph is a subjective impression. It is what the photographer sees ... and in the end, the whole corpus of our work becomes a portrait of ourselves. Marilyn Silverstone |
