Blackout New York- 11/09/1965
11/09/1965. On 9 November, 1965, the lights went out in New York. A power outage began around 5.30 pm, hitting this city's millions as well as a wide swathe of Canada and the US states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Jersey and New York. In total, 25 million people across 200,000 km2 were affected. At the time, René Burri was in his friend Elliott Erwitt's studio, on the corner of 59th Street and Fifth Avenue. He was cutting his film about China when it suddenly went dark. Burri, realised his good fortune. Carrying his Leica...