BURT GLINN 1925-2008 - Lot 10

BURT GLINN 1925-2008 Crazy Horse Saloon, Paris, 1956. Photograph. Posterior silver print, stamped by the author, captioned and dated in ink on the back. Image: 16.1 x 23.7 cm; sheet: 20.3 x 25.2 cm Born in 1925 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Burt Glinn served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946, before studying literature at Harvard University, where he worked as an editor and photographer for the Harvard Crimson student newspaper. From 1949 to 1950, he collaborated with Life magazine before becoming a freelance photographer. In 1951, he became an associate member of Magnum, alongside Eve Arnold and Dennis Stock, the first Americans to join the young photographic agency, then a full member in 1954. Versatile and technically proficient, Glinn was one of Magnum's leading corporate and advertising photographers. He received numerous awards for his photographic work, including the Overseas Press Club's award for Best Book of Overseas Photographic Reportage and the Art Directors Club of New York's award for Best Printed Advertising of the Year. Glinn was also president of the American Society of Media Photographers. He was President of Magnum from 1972 to 1975, and re-elected to this position in 1987.