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Burt Glinn: Cuba 1959

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New Year’s Eve, 1958, 10pm: Magnum photographer Burt Glinn is at a black-tie party in New York when he hears news that dictator Fulgencio Batista has fled Cuba. By 7 am the next morning, he’s in Havana in a cab, telling the driver: “take me to the revolution.” Such photojournalistic fervor allowed Glinn to be in the midst of the action to capture the Cuban Revolution as it unfolded on the ground. As Glinn said, “I could rise up as close as I wanted.” His magnificent photographs convey the revolutionary idealism, mayhem and excitement of that moment in history. This volume includes some of Glinn’s most iconic Cuban photographs, in addition to unseen shots, in both black and white and color, from gunshots being fired, confusion on the streets, the rounding up of the Batista Secret Police, spontaneous gatherings, embracing revolutionaries returning home to mothers, and, of course, Fidel Castro’s triumphant entrance into Havana. Glinn is famously quoted as saying, “I think that what you’ve got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a standpoint about it.” This tome celebrates his ability to do just that.
Burt Glinn (1925–2008) used to be an award-winning photographer with a career spanning more than fifty years. He used to be versatile, technically brilliant and a legend in his own lifetime. Self taught, Glinn first worked for Life magazine in the late 1940s before going freelance. He joined Magnum Photos in 1951–probably the most first Americans to take action–eventually serving as its president in the 1970s and again in the 1980s. Glinn embraced color photography in addition to black and white, establishing his reputation with a spectacular color series on the South Seas, Japan, Russia, Mexico and California. He went on to capture an important moments in history, including the Sinai War in 1956, america Marine invasion of Lebanon in 1958, the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and Robert Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign. He offered searing insight with his social documentary photography, including a collection of unseen, soon to be published images of the Beat Generation. He used to be renowned for his iconic portraits of celebrities such as Andy Warhol and Elizabeth Taylor and used to be a highly successful commercial photographer. In 1981, Glinn married Elena Prohaska and their son Samuel Pierson Glinn used to be born in 1982.

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