A power cut that kindled fears and aroused the imagination.
The date was 9th November 1965 and over 25 million people were thrust into the dark in an area that covered New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Jersey and some parts of Ontario in Canada.
 

Renè Burri, out and about in the streets during that strange “black magic” created a photographic report that captured many aspects of the great metropolis in the dark. This suggestive mix of the weird and wonderful can now be viewed in the volume Blackout New York, published by Moser Verlag Gmbh with a limited print run.