LIFE Photo Editor Barbara ‘Bobbi’ Baker Burrows Remembered | Time

Photo Editor Barbara Baker Burrows Was ‘the Mother of LIFE Magazine’

She died this month at the age of 73

via Time: http://time.com/5106768/barbara-bobbi-baker-burrows/

Photojournalists become celebrities by creating images that shape the way we see the world. Photo editors, away from the limelight, shape the way those images are presented. And Barbara Baker Burrows, who died of corticobasal degeneration, a rare brain disease, on Jan. 10 at 73, chose the pictures that told some of the century’s biggest stories.