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Charles Harbutt’s Travelog: The Best Essay About Photography Ever Written?

Charles Harbutt’s Travelog: The Best Essay About Photography Ever Written? | PDNPulse

When photographer and former Magnum president Charles Harbutt died on June 29, we called Alex Webb, one of the many photographers Harbutt mentored, for comment. Webb described Harbutt as “a remarkable teacher” who “thought about photography in interesting

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When photographer and former Magnum president Charles Harbutt died on June 29, we called Alex Webb, one of the many photographers Harbutt mentored, for comment. Webb described Harbutt as “a remarkable teacher” who “thought about photography in interesting ways.” Webb also said that the introductory essay Harbutt wrote for his 1974 book, Travelog, “is one of the most special pieces of writing about the process of taking photographs.” Webb noted that he didn’t agree with every word of it, but said, “Some of the things he says are so right about being a photographer and photographic perception.”

July 8, 2015
Charles Harbutt, Photojournalist With an Eye for Art as Well as News, Dies at 79 – The New York Times

Charles Harbutt, Photojournalist With an Eye for Art, Dies at 79

Mr. Harbutt infused his work with evocative imagery and as an art photographer he transformed conventional scenes into surreal metaphors.

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Mr. Harbutt’s early fascination with magic and the elusive line between perception and reality steered him toward journalism and its documentary role, first as a writer

July 6, 2015
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Magnum NewsIn Memoriam: Charles Harbutt, 1935-2015

Charles Harbutt, a member of Magnum from 1963 to 1981, died at the end of June, 2015. A unique and remarkable photographer, he was president of Magnum twice — from 1970-1972 and 1976-1978 — and was an important presence in the agency for many years. Charlie was also a singular teacher — as well as an insightful and thought provoking writer on photography, as exhibited by the following texts, which are excerpts from his three monographs. We at Magnum will miss him deeply and send our condolences to his widow, the photographer Joan Liftin, and his children, Sarah, Charles, and Damian. — Alex Webb

July 2, 2015
Charles Harbutt: Photographer, Teacher, Mentor – The New York Times

Charles Harbutt: Photographer, Teacher, Mentor

Charles Harbutt, a former president of Magnum Photos, saw photography not as art, but as “a reality high.” An influential teacher and mentor, he died on Tuesday at the age of 79.

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Charles Harbutt, a former president of Magnum Photos, died Tuesday in Monteagle, Tenn., where he was conducting a photography workshop. He was 79 and had been suffering from emphysema, his wife, the photographer Joan Liftin, said.

July 2, 2015
Photos by Charles Harbutt

Photos by Charles Harbutt – Down on the Street:

Awesome set of photos by Charles Harbutt, someone I had never heard of until this morning.

September 4, 2009
Charles Harbutt – I Don’t Take Pictures; Pictures Take Me (1972)

AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Charles Harbutt – I Don’t Take Pictures; Pictures Take Me (1972)”:

How is this continuum of photographer, world, and camera achieved? Each person must find it individually, but for me it has flowed from the realization that I don’t take pictures, pictures take me. I can do nothing except have film in the camera and be alert. My adversary, a photograph, stalks the world like a roaring lion. Pictures happen. One can only trust one’s sensitivity, the bounty of the world, and the chemistry of Kodak. This is the photographic method.

July 23, 2009