David Amram plays his French horn at the Five Spot Café in the Bowery. New York City, New York, USA. 1957. © Burt Glinn/Magnum Photos
Magnum Foundation invites you to an evening event in honor of the new book Burt Glinn—Half a Century as a Magnum Photographer, featuring a conversation between Elena Prohaska Glinn, book editor Sarah Stacke, book designer Bonnie Briant, and Magnum Foundation Board President Susan Meiselas. The conversation will dive into the first monograph of the late photographer’s work, and celebrate his commitment to supporting the next generation of photographers.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 | 6PM - 8PM
Doors open at 5:30 pm, event begins promptly at 6:00 pm
59 East 4th St, 7W | New York, NY 10003
Burt Glinn—Half a Century as a Magnum Photographer (Kehrer Verlag, 2023) celebrates the compelling, elegant, and expressive ways Burt Glinn experienced the world through photography. Highlighting his extraordinary talent for picturing iconic and everyday scenes from the second half of the 20th century, this is the first monograph covering the breadth of Glinn’s storied career. Books will be available for purchase on site at the vent, or you can buy the book online here.
Burt Glinn (1925–2008) is known as one of the most prolific photographers of his generation. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Glinn served in the US Army and studied literature at Harvard University. In 1951, while working for LIFE magazine, he joined Magnum Photos as an associate and became a full member in 1954, one of the first Americans at the young agency. Glinn gained recognition for his coverage of the Cuban Revolution and his in-depth color series on the South Seas, Japan, Russia, Mexico, and California, each of which was published as a complete issue of Holiday. In the 1960s, he became one of the first photographers to enter the field of annual reports and for the next four decades created a visual record of corporate America’s rapid growth. Throughout his career, he regularly covered national and international historical events, cultural icons, and political figures for leading publications. Whenever possible, Glinn made images of religious communities and leaders, as well as sacred architecture and rituals. Many of these photographs became his personal favorites.
About the speakers:
Elena Prohaska Glinn is an art advisor and independent curator who lives in East Hampton, New York.
Sarah Stacke is a photojournalist and archival researcher based in Brooklyn, New York. Through long-term projects created in dialogue with communities, she seeks to share stories about relationships to the land and its boundaries that are solutions-oriented. Sarah photographs for National Geographic, The New York Times, among others, and is a co-founder of The 400 Years Project, a photography collective looking at the evolution of Indigenous American identity and representation.
Bonnie Briant is a designer who lives and works in New York City. Her projects regularly feature in the “Books of the Year” lists by Time Magazine, the New York Times, American Photo and National Geographic. Her versatility has allowed her to design award-winning books about everything from the War on Terror (Sorry for the War, by Peter Van Agtmael) to intimate portraits of a family’s trials with cancer (The Family Imprint, by Nancy Borowick). She was recently awarded an AIGA prize for her work on Diane Arbus: Documents.
Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer based in New York. She is well known for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Her photographs are included in North American and international collections, and Mediations, a survey exhibition of her work from the 1970s to the present, was recently exhibited locally and internationally. In 1992 she was made a MacArthur Fellow, received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), and most recently the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (2019) and the first Women in Motion Award from Kering and the Rencontres d’Arles. She has been the President of the Magnum Foundation since 2007, with a mission to expand diversity and creativity in documentary photography.
Magnum Foundation is in an elevator building and has a restroom that is wheelchair accessible and gender-neutral. For access requests or questions, please contact events@magnumfoundation.org. As a small team, we will better be able to respond to requests made at least one week in advance.
Masks are currently appreciated, but not required. We may provide additional instructions ahead of the event.
Magnum Foundation events are made possible by the Henry Nias Foundation and our Circle of Friends
