In a series of previously unpublished images by the photojournalist Bud Lee, the Newark riots of 1967—and the brutal police crackdown in response—haunt in full color.
July 28, 1967, issue, a twelve-year-old boy named Joey Bass, Jr., lies contorted in the middle of a street in Newark, New Jersey. His bluejeans and high-tops look stained—muddied, perhaps, from playing in the grass earlier that day. Blood pools around him, following a jagged course on the concrete beneath his body. The magazine’s logo, in the top-left corner, partially obscures the boots of a hovering police officer.
Bud Lee’s photo of Joey Bass, Jr., a twelve-year-old wounded by police gunfire, on the July 28, 1967, cover ofThe family of Joey Bass, Jr., at their home in Newark.was Bud Lee, a twenty-six-year-old who had spent the past three years as a military photographer forby Peggy Sargent, the magazine’s photo editor. Prior to the Newark assignment, he had been dispatched to document the first legal abortion in the United States, in Denver.
Lee studied painting at the Art Students League of New York, the National Academy of Design, and Columbia University, and cited the landscape compositions of the Dutch master Pieter Bruegel the Elder as an influence. Newark was the first time he shot in color, working exclusively on color slide film rather than the more common color negative. The journalist Chris Campion, who edited the new volume, notes that this allowed less flexibility when shooting documentary photography.
Outside Amiri Baraka’s Spirit House in Newark’s Central Ward, during the first National Conference on Black Power, in July, 1967.
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