Charles Harbutt

Charles Henry Harbutt (July 29, 1935 – June 30, 2015) was an American photographer, a former president of Magnum, and full-time Associate Professor of Photography at Parsons School of Design in New York.

Biography

Harbutt was born in Camden, New Jersey, and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, and learned much of his photography skills from the towsnhip's amateur camera club. He attended Regis High School in New York City where he took photographs for the school newspaper.[1] He later graduated from Marquette University.[2]

Harbutt's work is deeply rooted in the modern photojournalist tradition. For the first twenty years of his career he contributed to major magazines in the United States, Europe and Japan. His work was often intrinsically political, exhibiting social and economic contingencies. In 1959, while working as a writer and photographer for the Catholic magazine Jubilee,[3] he was invited by members of the Castro underground to document the Cuban Revolution on the strength of three photographs he had published in Modern Photography.

Harbutt joined Magnum Photos and was elected president of the organization twice, first in 1979. He left the group in 1981, citing its increasingly commercial ambitions and the desire to pursue more personal work. He taught photography workshops, exhibited in solo and group shows around the world, and joined the faculty of the Parsons School of Design at New School University as a full-time professor, in addition to serving as guest artist at MIT, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Rhode Island School of Design. Harbutt was a founding member of Archive Pictures Inc., an international documentary photographers' cooperative, and a member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers.

His work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of American History, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the U.S. Library of Congress, George Eastman House, the Art Institute of Chicago, the International Center of Photography, the Center for Creative Photography, and at the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Beaubourg, and the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris.

In 1997, his negatives, master prints, and archives were acquired for the collection of the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.

He mounted a large exhibition of his work at the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City in December 2000 and received the medal of the City of Perpignan at a retrospective of his work there in 2004. He died in Monteagle, Tennessee, on June 30, 2015, at the age of 79. He had emphysema.[4][5]

Books

References

  1. ↑ Blake, Andrews (November 12, 2013). "Q & A with Charles Harbutt". Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ Regan, Margaret (December 29, 1997). "Charles Harbutt overcame many obstacles in his career, most notably cynicism.". Tucson Weekly. Retrieved October 12, 2009. Harbutt grew up in the little town of Teaneck, N.J. He learned so much about photography from the 'amateurs' in the local camera club that at Marquette in the 1950s he was banned from photog classes on the grounds that he already knew what he was doing.
  3. ↑ Bailey, Holly (March 3, 2014). "Charles Harbutt, a photographer captivated by magic in pictures". Yahoo News. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  4. ↑ Roberts, Sam (July 2, 2015). "Charles Harbutt, Photojournalist With an Eye for Art as Well as News, Dies at 79". New York Times. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Obituary: Charles Harbutt, Jr.". Cumberland Funeral Home, Monteagle. June 30, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
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