Harry Lime
Practitioner
Bad week in the world of photography.
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Beloved Magnum photographer, Burt Glinn, passed away early on the morning of April 9th.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Burt Glinn served in the United States Army between 1943 and 1946, before studying literature at Harvard University, where he edited and photographed for the Harvard Crimson college newspaper. From 1949 to 1950, Glinn worked for Life magazine before becoming a freelancer.
Glinn became an associate member of Magnum in 1951, along with Eve Arnold and Dennis Stock - the first Americans to join the young photo agency - and a full member in 1954. He made his mark with spectacular color series on the South Seas, Japan, Russia, Mexico and California. In 1959 he received the Mathew Brady Award for Magazine Photographer of the Year from the University of Missouri.
In collaboration with the writer Laurens van der Post, Glinn published A Portrait of All the Russias and A Portrait of Japan. His reportages have appeared in Esquire, Geo, Travel and Leisure, Fortune, Life and Paris-Match. He has covered the Sinai War, the US Marine invasion of Lebanon, and Fidel Castro's takeover of Cuba. In the 1990s he completed an extensive photo essay on the topic of medical science.
Versatile and technically brilliant, Glinn was one of Magnum's great corporate and advertising photographers. He had received numerous awards for his editorial and commercial photography, including the Best Book of Photographic Reporting from Abroad from the Overseas Press Club and the Best Print Ad of the Year from the Art Directors Club of New York. Glinn has served as president of the American Society of Media Photographers. He was president of Magnum between 1972 and 1975, and was re-elected to the post in 1987.
http://tinyurl.com/57eel3
Beloved Magnum photographer, Burt Glinn, passed away early on the morning of April 9th.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Burt Glinn served in the United States Army between 1943 and 1946, before studying literature at Harvard University, where he edited and photographed for the Harvard Crimson college newspaper. From 1949 to 1950, Glinn worked for Life magazine before becoming a freelancer.
Glinn became an associate member of Magnum in 1951, along with Eve Arnold and Dennis Stock - the first Americans to join the young photo agency - and a full member in 1954. He made his mark with spectacular color series on the South Seas, Japan, Russia, Mexico and California. In 1959 he received the Mathew Brady Award for Magazine Photographer of the Year from the University of Missouri.
In collaboration with the writer Laurens van der Post, Glinn published A Portrait of All the Russias and A Portrait of Japan. His reportages have appeared in Esquire, Geo, Travel and Leisure, Fortune, Life and Paris-Match. He has covered the Sinai War, the US Marine invasion of Lebanon, and Fidel Castro's takeover of Cuba. In the 1990s he completed an extensive photo essay on the topic of medical science.
Versatile and technically brilliant, Glinn was one of Magnum's great corporate and advertising photographers. He had received numerous awards for his editorial and commercial photography, including the Best Book of Photographic Reporting from Abroad from the Overseas Press Club and the Best Print Ad of the Year from the Art Directors Club of New York. Glinn has served as president of the American Society of Media Photographers. He was president of Magnum between 1972 and 1975, and was re-elected to the post in 1987.
Tom A
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I never met Burt Glinn, but one of my favourite books is his "Havana". It was published by Phototeca of Havana and it shows the heady days of Fidels entrance to Havana in 1959.
There is a picture of him, standing on a podium, three Nikon SP's draped on him. holding up a rifle over his head and a huge Monte Christo cigar in his mouth and at the same time a broad grin!
Whenever discussions go too technical or digital, I think of this picture and the other ones in the book. Subsisting on a diet of chicken, beans and rum - a bag full of assorted films, three cameras and most likely three lenses he covered one of the latter part of the 20th century's defining moment!
He might be gone, but his pictures will live a long,long time!
There is a picture of him, standing on a podium, three Nikon SP's draped on him. holding up a rifle over his head and a huge Monte Christo cigar in his mouth and at the same time a broad grin!
Whenever discussions go too technical or digital, I think of this picture and the other ones in the book. Subsisting on a diet of chicken, beans and rum - a bag full of assorted films, three cameras and most likely three lenses he covered one of the latter part of the 20th century's defining moment!
He might be gone, but his pictures will live a long,long time!
Nando
Well-known
I had Burt Glinn's photograph of Warhol in the manhole with Edie Sedgwick and Chuck Wein hanging on my bedroom wall during most of my university days. Never was a big fan of Warhol but I really liked that photograph.
PMCC
Late adopter.
I never met Burt Glinn, but a mutual friend told me that she met him when he visited Havana in 2000 or 2001. On different occasions, my friend had taken me -- and subsequently Burt -- to a little cafe near the Ambos Mundos, where both Burt and I became smitten with the same cafe singer. I learned that he had photographed the singer at length as she serenaded him with ballads of longing and desire. I imagine that Burt's photos of her, however good, were as personally memorable to him as mine were to me. Sooner or later everyone in Havana who had or was looking for black & white film (a cherished commodity) ended up at Fototeca. I remember a gallery opening there when Korda, then in his 70s, made a grand entrance squiring a ravishing young creature on each arm. Havana seemed a good place for a lion in winter. I like to think Burt Glinn found it so too.
Harry Lime
Practitioner
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I've only read about Burt Glinn and of course never met him, but I know that picture and somehow I imagine that it says an awful lot about who Burt Glinn was as a person. It's a great picture and he was a great photographer.
Bill Pierce
Well-known
Burt Glinn was an incredibly versatile photographer. We know him for his journalism and documentary work. But he was also a very successful commercial photographer. The percentage that Magnum received from that work was a great help at times. Magnum was important to him.
kbg32
neo-romanticist
Sad. I love his work.
Harry Lime
Practitioner
I need to start to find more up lifting material to post here....
HL
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pfoto
Well-known
Me too. Havana is a wonderful book.