Burt GlinnFollow This Artist
Born: 1925
Died: 2008
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
Website: www.burtglinn.com
Education:
BA History and Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1949
Burt Glinn Bio
About The Artist
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 is one of Magnum's great corporate and advertising photographers. He has 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.
Courtesy of Magnum Photos
Burt Glinn Art
Works by the Artist
Burt Glinn
USA. Washington, D.C. 1959. Nikita Khrushchev in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
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Great Britain. London. June 1959. Twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth Taylor on the set of "Suddenly Last Summer"
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Spain. Sagaro. 1959. Twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth Taylor on the set of "Suddenly Last Summer", in which she co-stars with Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift. It is Taylor's first film after the death of her 3rd husband, Mike Todd, in a plane crash.
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USA. New York City. 1957. Painter Helen Frankenthaler and sculptor David Smith in Frankenthaler's studio.
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USA. Chicago, IL. 1966. Hugh Hefner, Playboy founder, typing at his desk in his mansion.
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GB. London. 1960, Opening of the Picasso retrospectiv e at the Tate Gallery.
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USA. New York City. 1951. View of Lower Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry.
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