David Burnett has worked in over 75 countries and won many major awards for his photojournalism. A veteran journalist of the political scene in Washington, he has photographed every American president from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama.
Interviews
Bethanne Patrick talks with David Burnett about his new photo collection, 44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World, and his experiences in Iran at the time of the revolution.
Blog Posts
Submitted by Bethanne on Wed, 06/09/2010 - 3:23pm Giveaway: Conflict and Consciousness
These two books are perfect for a lot of the dads on various Father's Day lists out there, so sign up for this giveaway (more on how to sign up in a minute!): "The War Lovers" by Evan Thomas and "44 Days" by David Burnett.
This giveaway is a great juxtaposition of an accomplished print journalist writing about a long-ago war (Newsweek editor Thomas, on Theodore Roosevelt and The Spanish-American War) and an accomplished photojournalist covering a more recent crisis (National Geographic photographer Burnett, documenting the Iran hostage crisis).
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Submitted by Bethanne on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 5:42pm A Conversation with David Burnett
Photographer and journalist David Burnett's new book from National Geographic is "44 Days: Iran and the Making of the Modern World," and it's an important one. Look closely at these photos, and you can find clues to what's happening today in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other areas of conflict.
Burnett, of course, is a photojournalist, not a fighter: His observations about the photos he took 30 years ago are not about political change, but about cultural change and media change. He notes that in the days of film, deciding on whether or not you'd captured the moment was almost impossible until you saw the negatives. The fascinating thing is that the moments in the past that Burnett's camera did capture are as real to us as those of Matthew Brady from the Civil War -- or those of modern TIME and National Geographic photographers from war zones.
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