David Burnett (photojournalist)
David Burnett (born 1946)
He has won dozens of top awards for his work, including the 1973 Robert Capa Gold Medal (with Raymond Depardon and Chas Gerretsen) from the Overseas Press Club for work in Chile,[2] the 1980 Magazine Photographer of the Year from the National Press Photographers Association,[3] and the 1980 World Press Photo of the Year.[4]
He was a member of the Gamma photo agency and co-founded Contact Press Images.
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One of Burnett's photos of Phan Thi Kim Phúc, burned by napalm at Trảng Bàng in 1972. | |
Burnett's photo of another child injured at Trảng Bàng. |
Early life and formative years
David Burnett was born in 1946,[citation needed] in Holladay, Utah. His parent are Mr. and Mrs. Ted Burnett. He attended Oakwood School, Olympus Junior High, and Olympus high school. During a summer job at optical store in Salt Lake City he developed an interest for lenses, and his first published photos were in the yearbook of his high school.[5] Burnett said that he knew he wanted to be a photographer from the experience working on the yearbook and that within a year or two he became a stringer for a local weekly and occasionally sold pictures of Friday night basketball to The Salt Lake Tribune.[6]
Career
In 1968,[citation needed] after his graduation from the Colorado College,[5][additional citation(s) needed] Burnett began working as a freelance photographer for Time and Life, first in the United States and later in Vietnam.[citation needed]
On June 8, 1972. Burnett was one of the photojournalists present at
After two years in Vietnam, he joined the French photo agency Gamma, traveling the world for its news department for two years.[citation needed]
In 1975,[citation needed] he co-founded a new photo agency, Contact Press Images,[6] in New York City. For the last three decades he has traveled extensively, working for most of the major magazines in the United States and Europe.[citation needed]
In 2004, Burnett also used his
In 2009,
Also that year, Burnett published another book of intimate, unpublished images he took of reggae singer Bob Marley, titled Soul Rebel.[11]
In 2019, the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, the first human mission to the Moon, he published We Choose to Go to the Moon, a book of photos taken around the launch pad in Cape Canaveral.[citation needed]
In October 2022,
Partial bibliography
2009 - 44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World
2009 - Soul Rebel
2019 - We Choose to Go to the Moon
2022 - The Outsiders ‘Rare and Unseen’ - with
Accolades
1973 - Robert Capa Gold Medal - with Raymond Depardon and Chas Gerretsen
1980 - Magazine Photographer of the Year - National Press Photographers Association
1980 - World Press Photo of the Year
References
- ^ "Untitled Document".
- ^ "The Robert Capa Gold Medal 1973 Archived 2012-09-05 at archive.today", Overseas Press Club of America. Accessed 2010-07-13.
- ^ "Pictures of the Year". NPPA. 2012-10-16. Archived from the original on October 14, 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
- ^ "1980 Photo Contest | World Press Photo". www.worldpressphoto.org. Archived from the original on October 14, 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
- ^ a b Warren, James (July 13, 1980). "It's simple: people want to see pictures". The Salt Lake Tribune. 221: E3.
- ^ a b Gallo Farrell, Barbara (January 10, 2014). "Photographer hopes his image stays with you". Poughkeepsie Journal: 5E.
- ISBN 0-670-88040-X.
- ^ Seth Schiesel, "Which Camera Does This Pro Use? It Depends on the Shot". New York Times, 8 June 2005. Frank Van Riper, "Burnett's 4x5: Covering Politics the Hard Way", "Camera Works", Washington Post, n.d. (1994). Both accessed 2010-02-16.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-04-01.
- ^ O'Neill, Claire (2009-09-22). "David Burnett's Lens On Revolution". NPR. Archived from the original on 2022-10-13. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
- ^ Freedom du Lac, J. (February 15, 2009). "'Soul Rebel': the sublime charisma of Bob Marley". The Herald-Palladium: C8.
- ^ "New book shows unseen images of 'The Outsiders'". FOX23 News. 2022-10-11. Archived from the original on 2022-10-13. Retrieved 2022-10-13.