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Dave Burnett Says 'The Stringer' Used His Photos Without Permission or Attribution

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Photographer David Burnett not only sternly rebukes the findings of the documentary, but also asserts it used his photos without permission.

Photographer Who Was at the Scene of 'Napalm Girl' Says Nick Ut Took the Photo

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

David Burnett says The Stringer film “does nothing” to shake his long-held conviction that it was Nick Ut who took Napalm Girl.

Talking Pictures with David Burnett: How a Legendary Photojournalist Stays Curious About the Craft - YouTube

Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Talking Pictures with David Burnett: How a Legendary Photojournalist Stays Curious About the Craft

David Burnett is one of the world’s most respected photojournalists working today. He’s made pictures in the news for five decades, making him one of the mos…

via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BHXRcM8wb8

David is a dear friend and colleague of Kenneth Jarecke, founder of The Curious Society. David is one of the original members of The Curious Society, he’s an Issue 1 contributor and a frequent guest in our weekly Clubhouse room (link below). When David starts talking about pictures you can feel the passion he has for his craft. He tells stories and shares the secrets behind some of his most legendary pictures for over two hours. Thank you to David, Kenneth, Raquel and our live audience on zoom for this terrific conversation.

We're Just Sayin: Fifty Years On...

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Fifty Years On…

I stumble a bit, me, the former Math major, when I try and do the ‘math.’ Last fall was fifty years: I arrived in Vietnam in October 1…

Link: http://werejustsayin.blogspot.com/2021/02/fifty-years-on.html

When I told John I was heading to Vietnam, he said to me… “do a story for me - call it Children of War…” I paused, then bagan to ask, “John, what do you want me to do… ?” and before I could finish the sentence, he said “No, no! You tell ME the Story. YOU’re the journalist, your pictures should show ME the story.” Over the decades since, I have been immensely glad for that teaching moment.

‘When the heart gets filtered up through the camera’: Vietnam War photographers on how to cover COVID better - Columbia Journalism Review

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

‘When the heart gets filtered up through the camera’: Vietnam War photographers on how to cover COVID better

On February 29, Washington State health officials announced what they believed to be the first death due to the novel coronavirus in the United States. By March 31, the official national death toll stood at 3,173. It was a larger number, news outlets n

via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/vietnam-war-photographers-covid.php

“War is 95 percent boredom and 5 percent sheer terror, from a journalist’s point of view,” says David Hume Kennerly, who won a 1972 Pulitzer Prize for his feature photography of the Vietnam War. CJR sat down with Kennerly and three other esteemed photojournalists from that conflict, Art Greenspon, Robert Hodierne, and David Burnett, to ask what lessons we can take from Vietnam to cover today’s invisible killer and the absence of public suffering.

David Burnett: Letter to the NPPA on Ethics - PhotoShelter Blog

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

David Burnett: Letter to the NPPA on Ethics - PhotoShelter Blog

Editor’s note: Photojournalist David Burnett recently penned a letter to the National Press Photographers Association in response to the discussion around photographic ethics and the publication of the Photo Bill of Rights. With his permission, we are rep

via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/07/david-burnett-letter-to-the-nppa-on-ethics/

Editor’s note: Photojournalist David Burnett recently penned a letter to the National Press Photographers Association in response to the discussion around photographic ethics and the publication of the Photo Bill of Rights. With his permission, we are republishing it in its entirety.

Photographing Impeachment Proceedings Against Three Presidents | The New Yorker

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Photographing Impeachment Proceedings Against Three Presidents

David Burnett, whose images from the Watergate hearings and Clinton impeachment have become iconic, will be on hand as the Senate decides the fate of Donald Trump.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/photographing-impeachment-proceedings-against-three-presidents

For more than half a century, David Burnett has been photographing impeachments, wars, revolutions, Olympic Games, and artists, making himself one of the stars of his field. He got his start around the time of the moon landing, when he had the idea to take pictures of the people watching that historic event. A couple of years later he was in Vietnam, where he was present when the Associated Press’s Nick Ut took a legendary photograph of a nine-year-old girl covered in napalm. Burnett gained wider renown several years later for his work in Iran during and after the Revolution. Since that time, he has shot numerous sporting events, and compiled a book about the reggae star Bob Marley.

Photojournalist David Burnett has switched to Sony after 40 years with Canon! - sonyalpharumors sonyalpharumors

Sat, 27 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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Photo history is a long litany of the lost and found. Reputations rise and fall; trends and tools come and go. A photographer might be the toast of the town for a time, then fall into oblivion a few short years later. William Mortensen, anyone? The opposite of Mortensen might be someone like Mike Disfarmer or Vivian Maier who bursts onto the scene from nowhere and is quickly integrated into the canon. Critical variance seems more the rule than the exception, and the pace of that variance has only increased of late as we plunge further into the end-times.

David Burnett vs Sports Illustrated - The Eye of Photography

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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David Burnett vs Sports Illustrated - The Eye of Photography

Photo editor and photography history teacher Robert Stevens discusses in a column the non-use of a legendary image by David Burnett.

David Burnett, recipient of 2017 Greenfield Prize - The Eye of Photography

Tue, 07 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

David Burnett, recipient of 2017 Greenfield Prize

The Hermitage Artist Retreat and its partner, the Greenfield Foundation, are presenting their first Greenfield Prize in the art of photography to internationally acclaimed photojournalist David Burnett

This is the Pain of Loading Film Into an Old Leica II from the 1930s

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This is the Pain of Loading Film Into an Old Leica II from the 1930s

Renowned photojournalist David Burnett just posted this short 2-minute video showing how you load film into the old screw-mount, knob-wind Leica II, a

via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/03/21/pain-loading-film-old-leica-ii-1930s/

Renowned photojournalist David Burnett just posted this short 2-minute video showing how you load film into the old screw-mount, knob-wind Leica II, a rangefinder introduced in 1932.

Business of Editorial Photography – Panel Discussion | The Photo Brigade

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Business of Editorial Photography – Panel Discussion - The Photo Brigade

This special Business of Editorial Photography Panel Discussion features some of the best photographers on the planet: David Bergman, David Burnett, Al Tielemans, Rob Tringali, and via Skype, Robert Seale. Moderated by PhotoShelter’s Allen Murabayashi, th

via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2016/02/business-of-editorial-photography-panel-discussion/

This special Business of Editorial Photography Panel Discussion features some of the best photographers on the planet: David Bergman, David Burnett, Al Tielemans, Rob Tringali, and via Skype, Robert Seale. Moderated by PhotoShelter‘s Allen Murabayashi, they talk about their collective 100+ years of experience working for the top publications of our times

A New Day in Newburgh - The New York Times

Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

A New Day in Newburgh

David Burnett has traveled the world on assignment. So why hadn’t he done anything in the upstate New York town he now calls home?

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/01/a-new-day-in-newburgh/

The world traveler David Burnett was back home in the Hudson Valley when his wife’s cousin challenged him to an assignment. “She threw an elbow at me,” Mr. Burnett recalled. “ ‘Sure, you go off to France, Spain and Vienna. But what about Newburgh?’ ”

Photography Can Be a Solitary Business. This Was a Team Effort — Vantage — Medium

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Photography Can Be a Solitary Business. This Was a Team Effort

A famed photojournalist brings his craft and his friends to his recovering home town

via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/photography-can-be-a-solitary-business-this-was-a-team-effort-9bb48c66be2a

Famed photojournalist David Burnett is bringing his craft and his friends to his recovering home town

David Burnett: Marathon Man — zPhotoJournal

Wed, 07 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

David Burnett: Marathon Man

To be a photographer in this age, you have to really WANT to do it. Don’t do it just because you can’t think of anything else to do. Go to workshops, and perhaps more important, use your library and even the web to find work which inspires you. One of the things which I find so disconcerting is that very few young photographers today can tell you who the photojournalists of note were in the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s. I fear there is a certain kind of self-validation which shooting/seeing immediately engenders