Burt Glinn

“I think that what you've got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it.”

Born in 1925 in Pittsburgh, PA, Burt Glinn studied literature at Harvard University whilst editing and photographing for the Harvard Crimson college newspaper. After graduating from Harvard, Glinn worked as a photographer for Life magazine before becoming a freelancer. In 1951, Glinn became an associate member (and one of the first Americans) of Magnum, the internationally recognized photographers’ cooperative. For the next fifty years, Burt would prove to be prolific in producing highly original personal perspectives of many of the people and events that shaped the second half of the 20th century.