Jun Fujita: Behind the Camera by Graham Harrison Lee

* This title is on pre-sale. Pre-orders will ship Summer 2025. Hardcover8.25 in. x 10.75 in. | 20.955 cm. x 27.305 cm.200 pages Disasters, riots, and massacres. Early Chicago through the lens of Jun Fujita’s camera, the man who shot Al Capone. Jun Fujita was a Japanese immigrant who became a pioneering photojournalist and poet in Chicago during the first half of the 1900s. Fujita was not only a witness to momentous events in Chicago’s history; his photographs of these news events shaped the way they were recorded. He used photography to humanize inhumanity and to make legendary figures more life-sized. Despite his ethnic background and limited English, Fujita became a celebrated, somewhat swashbuckling member of the staunchly segregated city’s society, counting everyone from Carl Sandburg to Al Capone as friends. Yet he had to fight to avoid being sent to an internment camp during World War II, and he and his white wife refused to have children, fearing the prejudice biracial children