Shirley Burden
Shirley Burden | |
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Born | Shirley Carter Burden December 9, 1908 |
Died | June 3, 1989 | (aged 80)
Education | Browning School |
Occupation(s) | Writer, photographer |
Spouses | Flobelle Fairbanks (m. 1937; died 1969)Julietta Valverde Lyon
(m. 1971) |
Children | Margaret Florence Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly (grandmother) Hamilton McKown Twombly (grandfather) |
Family | See Vanderbilt |
Shirley Carter Burden (December 9, 1908 – June 3, 1989) was an American photographer,[1][2] author of picture essays on racism, Catholicism, and history of place.[3][4] He served on advisory committees of museums, including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California, and was the Photography Committee chairman at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and of Aperture,[5] which named the Burden Gallery (New York) in his honor.
Early life
Burden was born on December 9, 1908, in New York City, the younger son of
He was at the Browning School in New York City until 1926, but did not go on to college or university education.[8]
Career
Beginning in 1924, Burden assisted at
Commercial career
During World War II, Burden established Tradefilms in 1942, successfully producing training films which were then in demand from the US Navy, the Office of Education, and
Fine art career
Dissatisfied with commercial photography, and having embraced
These contacts and experience launched a successful fine art photography career. His photo-essay on the all-but-abandoned
He continued with his photo essays (on Japan, and his ancestors, the Vanderbilts
Personal life
In 1934, Burden married
- Margaret Florence (1936–2019), who married Daniel Childs.[16]
- Shirley Carter Burden Jr. (1941–1996), who was a former assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy,[16] and who was married to Amanda Jay Mortimer (b. 1944) before their divorce in 1972.[17][18]
After the death of his first wife Flobelle on January 5, 1969,[16] Burden married Julietta Valverde Lyon in 1971.[8][19]
Burden died June 3, 1989, above Teterboro Airport, on a Los Angeles to New York flight.[6] His grandson, S. Carter Burden III, is the founder of the managed web hosting provider Logicworks.[20] His granddaughter, Constance Childs, married celebrity chef and Food Network host David Rosengarten.[21]
Legacy
He gifted or exchanged, in memory of his first wife Flobelle, large numbers of photographs from his generous and eclectic collection of modernist works to MoMA, The Centre for Photography and other institutions. In 1989, 5 years after Aperture moved headquarters to a five-story brownstone at 20 East 23rd Street in New York,[22] the building's second floor was devoted to the Burden Gallery, in recognition of Burden's longtime support.[6] The Burden Professorship in Photography at Harvard University in 1999 was established posthumously by his family.
Books
- 1960 God Is My Life[6]
- 1963 I Wonder Why[6]
- 1965 Behold Thy Mother[6]
- 1981 Presence[6]
- 1981The Vanderbilts in My Life[6]
- 1985 Chairs[6]
- 1989 The Mary I Love[6]
Films
- 1930 The Silent Enemy (assistant editor)
- 1933 Before Dawn (associate producer)
- 1935 She (production associate)
- 1940 Look to Lockheed for Leadership (Documentary short)
- 1940 The Alchemist in Hollywood
References
- ^ Burden, Shirley C (1981). Presence : Photographs With Observations. Aperture Inc, Millerton, N.Y
- ^ Shirley Burden: Photographs of Ellis Island in the 1950s Dates: June 17, 1987 – September 14, 1987 [1] accessed Feb 17 2015
- ^ Burden, Shirley C (1985). Chairs. Aperture : Distributed by Viking Penguin, New York
- ^ Kotker, Norman & Jonas, Susan & United States. National Park Service & Montclair State College (1989). Ellis Island : echoes from a nation's past. Aperture Foundation in association with the National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior and Montclair State College : Farrar, Straus and Giroux [distributor], New York, N.Y
- ^ Shirley C. Burden, 1909–1989. (obituary). (1989-06-22). In Aperture. (n115), p78(1).
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Shirley Burden, 80, a Writer-Photographer". The New York Times. 5 June 1989. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ "H. M'K. TWOMBLY, CAPITALIST, DEAD; Brother-in-Law of W. K. Vanderbilt Never Recovered from Shock of His Son's Death. DIRECTOR OF MANY ROADS His Death Occurred at Florham Park, His Beautiful Estate and Model Farm, Near Morristown, N. J." The New York Times. January 12, 1910. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
- ^ a b "Mrs. Lyon and S. C. Burden, Investment Banker, to Marry". The New York Times. January 15, 1971. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ Fahey, D., & Rich, L. G. (1987). Masters of starlight: photographers in Hollywood. Los Angeles County Museum.
- ^ Hall, J. B. (Ed.). (1978). Minor White: Rites & Passages: His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from His Diaries and Letters (Vol. 80). Aperture.
- ^ Jonas, S. (Ed.). (1989). Ellis Island: echoes from a nation's past. Aperture Foundation.
- ^ Book Review: Out of Gethsemani. In Renascence Volume 15, Issue 1, Fall 1962 Essays on Values in Literature Sister M. Thérèse, S.D.S. Pages 46-50 DOI: 10.5840/renascence19621519
- ^ Keliher, A. V. (1966). Helping Children Identify. Childhood Education, 42(5), 275-275.
- ^ Friedman, Bernard Harper. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: A Biography. Doubleday Books, 1978.
- ^ "S. C. BURDEN TO WED FLOBELLE FAIRBANKS; Betrothal Is Announced of Screen and Stage Actress to Vanderbilt Kin". The New York Times. 3 March 1934. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ a b c "MRS. SHIRLEY C. BURDEN". The New York Times. January 6, 1969. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence (January 24, 1996). "Carter Burden, Progressive Patrician, 54, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved November 19, 2008.
- ^ "People, Jun. 26, 1972". Time. June 26, 1972. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012. Last week Amanda, 28, filed for divorce for "cruel and inhuman treatment." Carter, 30, replied: "I'm very surprised and disappointed."
- ^ "Shirley Burden, A Banker Here, Weds Mrs. Lyon". The New York Times. January 24, 1971. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ "Management Team - Logicworks". Archived from the original on 14 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
- ^ Anthony Ramirez, "A Patron of the Arts Needs a Patron," The New York Times, February 16, 1997