Bill Eppridge

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The book got a nice mention in Tim Rutten’s column about Obama in today’s L.A. Times.

My book on Bobby Kennedy made the Amazon list of hot new releases this morning. Thanks for the support!

The Chaney family as they depart for the burial of James Chaney, Meridian, Mississippi, August 7, 1964. (© Bill Eppridge)

Some of my pictures from the civil rights era, including the image of the Chaney family, above, will be included in an upcoming exhibition at the High Museum, in Atlanta, called Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement. The show opens on June 7th and runs until October 5th. Get all the details on the High Museum’s website.

Photos from my book about RFK’s campaign are in the June ‘08 Vanity Fair. See the online photo essay.

Robert Hanashiro over at SportsShooter.com gave my upcoming book, A Time It Was, a really nice write-up. Check out the story here.

The Crooked Tree Arts Center in Petoskey, Mich. will be having an exhibit of photographs from A Time It Was, my upcoming book about Bobby Kennedy’s presidential campaign. The show opens this Friday, April 18th, 2008 at 5:30 p.m. and will be on view through July 26th. See the center’s website for the details.

This June, I’m publishing a compendium of my photographs of Bobby Kennedy’s presidential campaign from 1966 and 1968. It has a great intro by journalist Pete Hamill. You can read the press release here, or pre-order the book here. Stay tuned for related book events and other developments as we get closer to the pub date!

My photographs of the Beatles, from their visit to the U.S. in 1964, are currently on view in Liverpool in Backstage and Behind the Scenes at Albert Dock. The show is up until August 15th.