Andrew Sacks, 20th & 21st century. A photographic print of Senator Robert Kennedy during his 1968 campaign clasping the hand of young Sybil (Turner) Martin near the intersection of 12th Street and Clairmount in Detroit, Michigan. From the original negatives taken by Andrew Sacks, fused to foam board. Signed "Andrew Sacks" and dated "1968" lower right, titled lower left. Image 16 1/2 x 10 3/4" high, foam board 19 3/4 x 15 3/4" high overall.
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Andrew Sacks was born in Detroit and attended college at the University of Michigan where he began his photography work for the Michigan Daily from 1965-1969.He has had a long career in image making as a still photographer and filmmaker, and his work for magazine and photo agencies has taken him across North America and overseas. Although Sacks has done a lot of freelance photography for magazines and newspapers including the Detroit News and New York Times, he now concentrates on video production. His local clients include the Chelsea Milling Company and Chelsea State Bank.
While at the Michigan Daily, Sacks photographed political figures, musicians, student demonstrations at the University of Michigan, draft card burnings and other anti-Vietnam War protests, the riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, and appearances of John Cage, Lyndon Johnson, Timothy Leary, Eldridge Cleaver, John Sinclair, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Iggy Pop, Aretha Franklin, Freddie Hubbard, and Gerald Ford in Ann Arbor, and a meeting of Ku Klux Klan in Dearborn, Michigan.