- Barbara Gluck
Barbara Gluck is an award winning
photojournalist , speaker, writer and catalytic force.Biography
Her own life experiences have catapulted her way out of the box, as she uniquely merges art, spirit and business for the creation of a new paradigm.
One of only three women photographers to cover the
Vietnam War (for TheN.Y. Times 1968-69/1972-73), Barbara is an internationally famous photojournalist and renowned art photographer. The J.P. Getty Museum recently purchased a large portfolio of her vintage Vietnam prints for their permanent collection, and included one of her photographs in a prestigious exhibit called “Pictures for The Press” -- representing the 35 most powerful icon images of the most importanthistoric events between 1940-70’s.From working as the Special Advisor to the President of
Young & Rubicam advertising agency in New York, to mingling with prostitutes on the streets ofSaigon , beggars on the streets of Bombay, the homeless on the streets ofSanta Monica , and Presidents, Prime Ministers, Five-Star Generals, and countless celebrities, Barbara's done it all. She lived in an Ashram in India and upstate New York for almost 7 years, co-founded The Light Institute of Galisteo,New Mexico in the mid eighties (the cutting edge of the past life movement) and went on to found The Global Light Network and a powerful healing system called: The Soul Matrix Clearing, Healing and Empowerment Process, which she facilitated around the world. Barbara's love for all humanity and her ability to see through the veils and programming of the human condition down to the Divine Heart and Essence of each Human Being, has filled her with compassion, wisdom and a unique capacity for healing - to uplift, transform and recreate the very space inside ourselves.Barbara is truly an Amazing Women. She is the only women photographer to:
# fly a one day B –52 bombing mission
# fly on and off an Air Craft carriersto cover the pilots bombing and spend time with 5000 men;
# to visit the Vie t Cong in their territory.Her awards and work are numerous. They include the World Press Photo Foundation award as the Outstanding News Photo of the year in 1973 plus a Poynter Fellowship at
Yale University for her Excellence in Journalism in 1974. In 2003 Barbara returned to her photography career. B&W Magazine*, a fine photography collectors magazine, ”Spotlighted" her in a six page spread in their June 2004 issue. The article, written by Mark Edward Harris, began with: "Barbara Gluck's photographs have been called "the Henri Cartier-Bressons of the Vietnam War – she put a human face on war." In January of 2008,RANGEFINDER Magazine wrote a beautiful 6 page story on Barbara and her work called: "A Decisive Moment."In the Spring of 2005, which was the 30th Anniversary of the end of the war, she went back to Vietnam for the first time since she left in 1973. She returned as an invited guest of the Vietnamese Government for a Conference for Foreign Journalists who covered the war and contemporary Vietnamese journalists. She was asked to be a keynote speaker at this “Conference of Reunion and Reconciliation.” She was also invited to be key note speaker at another Journalist Conference on The Role of Journalism in the Development of Vietnam.
During her two months in Vietnam she traveled extensively throughout the country -- re-photographing the country, the culture, the people and what was left of The War -- for a major photography book she is producing: VIETNAM: THEN AND NOW which will merge her vintage B/W photographs with new color ones she has just taken.
She is currently also working on producing the "AMAZING WOMEN" documentary, which honors a shift that is now taking place and showing a powerful group of women leaders, in various fields, who have risen to power globally and are creating a new paradigm in leadership and already make a huge difference. Barbara brings to this project a wonderful insight into being a remarkable woman.
Collections
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Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
*International Center of Photography , New York
*Getty Center , Los AngelesAwards
* 1973,
World Press Photo , Outstanding News Photos
* 1974, Poynter Fellowship, Yale UniversityExternal links
* [http://www.barbaragluck.com/ Official site of Barbara Gluck]
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