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With a foreword by the Honorable Ras J. Baraka, 40th Mayor of Newark, NJ, The War Is Here is Life magazine photographer Bud Lee’s dramatic, empathetic, and still shocking record of the Newark uprising of 1967—a pivotal moment in a summer of protest and rage across the country, whose reverberations we still feel today.
US Release: May 16, 2023 • UK Release: May 22, 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 9781736309360 • 192 pages
Bud Lee (1941-2015) was a self-taught photographer, who first took up a camera professionally in the military and received fine art training at the National Academy in New York. He had an idiosyncratic eye unconstrained by the conventions of documentary photography. Between 1967 and 1974, he worked on assignment for Life, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and many other publications, finding himself at the center of some of the biggest stories of the time. An outsider who got insider access, his work is poetic and painterly, occasionally droll and irreverent. The War Is Here is the first book to collect his photographs.
Chris Campion is a British author, journalist, and editor, and has written for publications that include The Guardian, The Times (UK), Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, NME, Dazed & Confused, and Vice. He is an archivist for the Estate of Bud Lee, the editor of The War Is Here, and contributes an essay on Bud Lee and the story behind photographs, entitled “On Avon, Between Badger and Livingston.”
Junius Williams is the Official Historian for the City of Newark, and a history maker in his own right. He is the founding Director of the Abbott Leadership Institute at Rutgers University Newark, and the Youth Media Symposium. Junius is the developer of RiseUpNewark.com, a website that traces the history of Newark through the stories of major ethnic groups that have made their mark on Newark. He is the host on the national podcast “Everything’s Political.”
A lifelong Newark resident, Richard Cammarieri is employed with the New Community Corporation as director for External Affairs/Community Engagement with a focus on Resident Organizing, Civic Engagement and Public Policy Awareness and Advocacy initiatives. He is Chairman of the Board of the New Community Federal Credit Union. He has had extensive experience in Newark grassroots community organizing and neighborhood policy development. He currently serves on the Newark Equitable Growth Advisory Commission and as Chairperson for the Newark Community Development Network and for the Board of the Believe in Newark Foundation. He is an Executive Committee member of the Newark Branch NAACP and is a founding Board member of the Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District in Newark. He graduated from Rutgers University Newark with a Bachelor’s Degree in English.
The Honorable Ras J. Baraka is the 40th Mayor of the City of Newark. Born and raised in Newark, with family who've lived in the city for more than 80 years, Mayor Baraka’s progressive approach to governing has won him accolades from grassroots organizations to the White House. His father, the late Amiri Baraka, a legendary poet, playwright and political activist, was intimately connected with the events that occurred in Newark in 1967.