David Burnett (photojournalist)

David Burnett at the book signing for "Soul Rebel".

David Burnett is a magazine photojournalist. His work from the 1979 Iranian revolution was published extensively in Time (including its "Man of the Year" portrait of the Ayatollah Khomeini).

He graduated from Colorado College in 1968 and began working as a freelance photographer for Time and Life, first in the United States and later in Vietnam. After two years in Vietnam, he joined the French photo agency Gamma, traveling the world for its news department for two years.

In 1975 he co-founded a new photo agency, Contact Press Images, 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]} His work covering the 2004 Olympics with an array of antiquated cameras and films received positive reviews in the photography press and in The New York Times.^{[citation needed]}

In 2004, Burnett also used his Speed Graphic with a 178mm f/2.5 Aero-Ektar lens removed from a K-24 aerial camera to cover the Presidential campaign of John Kerry.^[1]

Burnett at the "Soul Rebel" book signing

In 2009 Burnett published a book of intimate, unpublished images he took of reggae singer Bob Marley, titled Soul Rebel.

He has won dozens of top awards for his work, including the 1973 Robert Capa Gold Medal (with Raymond Depardon and Charles Gerretsen) from the Overseas Press Club for work in Chile,^[2] Magazine Photographer of the Year from the National Press Photographers Association, and the World Press Photo of the Year.^{[citation needed]} Burnett lives in Washington, D.C.

Notes

1. ^ 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.
2. ^ "The Robert Capa Gold Medal 1973", Overseas Press Club of America. Accessed 2010-07-13.

Sources

• David Burnett's site
• "David Burnett". The New York Times. ("This multimedia feature requires the Macromedia Flash 6 player.")
• David Burnett's blog