Burk Uzzle

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Burk Uzzle, 2018

Burk Uzzle (born August 4, 1938 in Raleigh , North Carolina , USA ) is an American photographer and former member of the renowned Magnum Photos photo agency .

Life

Burk Uzzle began working as a photojournalist for his home newspaper News and Observer in Raleigh in 1955 . From 1957 to 1962 he worked as a freelance photographer for the New York agency Star . From 1962 Uzzle took photos for Life magazine. In 1967 he left Life and became a full member of Magnum Photos' New York office . In 1970 he received the "Page One Award" from the News Papers Guild New York (New York Newspaper Publishers Association). From 1978 to mid-1980, Uzzle was President of Magnum . In 1982 he left the agency to devote himself entirely to his work as a freelance photographer and his own book projects.

Publications (selection)

  • Landscapes by Burk Uzzle and Ronald Bailey (preface), 1973 (English)
  • All American by Burk Uzzle and Martha Chadroudi (design), Aperture, 1984, ISBN 0-9613616-0-3 (English)
  • Progress report on civilization , Chrysler Museum, 1992, ISBN 0-94074-465-1
  • A Family Named Spot: Photographs by Burk Uzzle by Burk Uzzle and Allan Gurganus, Five Ties Publishing, 2006, ISBN 0-9777193-0-8
  • Just Add Water: Photographs by Burk Uzzle , Five Ties Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9777193-6-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait of Burk Uzzle in the Laurence Miller Gallery ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.laurencemillergallery.com
personal data
SURNAME Uzzle, Burk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Raleigh, North Carolina