{"id":264,"date":"2008-04-10T16:02:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T16:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=264"},"modified":"2008-04-10T16:02:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T16:02:38","slug":"burt-glinn-1925-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Burt Glinn (1925-2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Burt Glinn<\/strong>, one of the first batch of American photographers to join Magnum (associate members with him in 1951 were <em>Eve Arnold<\/em> and <em>Dennis Stock<\/em>) died on April 9 of kidney failure and pneumonia, aged 82.<\/p>\n<p>You can see more about him on both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnumphotos.com\/Archive\/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.StoryDetail_VPage&amp;pid=2K7O3RHC2HRJ\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Magnum <\/em><\/a>and the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.magnumphotos.com\/2008\/04\/burt_glinn_19252008.html\" target=\"_blank\">Magnum blog<\/a>.  In the 1960s he was also the President of the <em>ASMP <\/em>and you can read a lengthy  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asmp.org\/culture\/mentor_glinn.php\" target=\"_blank\">interview <\/a>about his life and work made with him over the phone by the editor of the ASMP bulletin in January 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Glinn was a real hard-working photographer and a fighter for photographer&#8217;s rights. He got what was perhaps his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnumphotos.com\/Archive\/C.aspx?VP=Mod_ViewBox.ViewBoxZoom_VPage&amp;VBID=2K1HZO67SO8FC&amp;IT=ImageZoom01&amp;PN=17&amp;STM=T&amp;DTTM=Image&amp;SP=Album&amp;IID=2S5RYDZ2DCGX&amp;SAKL=T&amp;SGBT=T&amp;DT=Image\" target=\"_blank\">best-known picture<\/a> by arriving &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/g2\/story\/0,,2249530,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>late and out of breath<\/em><\/a>&#8221; at the Lincoln Memorial when Kruschev was the first Soviet premier to visit America, and was too late to go up in front of him with the rest of the press &#8211; so he shot from behind with a Nikon and a 50mm lens, making just a handful of exposures with the press motioning  him to get out of their picture, and was soon moved away by security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burt Glinn, one of the first batch of American photographers to join Magnum (associate members with him in 1951 were Eve Arnold and Dennis Stock) died on April 9 of kidney failure and pneumonia, aged 82. You can see more about him on both Magnum and the Magnum blog. In the 1960s he was also &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burt Glinn (1925-2008)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}