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 1990's 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 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 served as president of ASMP from
1980 - 1981. Between 1972 and 1975 he was president of Magnum, and was
re-elected to the post in 1987.
In 1981, Burt married Elena
Prohaska and their son Samuel Pierson Glinn was born in 1982.
All images © Burt Glinn/Magnum Photos
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