Photographer put Cold War in focus
By Megan • Apr 17th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Burt Glinn reports for The Chicago Tribune:
Historic images included Castro, Khrushchev in 1959
“NEW YORK — Burt Glinn, a photojournalist whose images of historic moments of the Cold War include Fidel Castro’s 1959 march on Havana and Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to the U.S. that year, has died. He was 82.
Mr. Glinn, who lived in East Hampton, died April 9, according to Magnum Photos. The cause of death was not given.
Mr. Glinn began his career with the Magnum Photos agency in 1951 and photographed events in such locations as Japan, Russia and Mexico. He also covered the 1956 Sinai War and the 1983 U.S. Marine military action in Lebanon.
A highlight of Mr. Glinn’s career came on New Year’s Eve 1958, when he was in New York and got word that the dictator Fulgencio Batista had fled Cuba and that a ragtag band of revolutionaries led by Castro would be making a triumphant march into Havana.”
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