© David Burnett / Courtesy of Anastasia Photo and Contact Press Images
Expositions du 7/6/2016 au 14/8/2016 Terminé
Anastasia Photo 143 Ludlow Street NY 10002 New York États-Unis
Anastasia Photo 143 Ludlow Street NY 10002 New York États-Unis
The exhibition showcases the passion, drive, and thrill of the Olympic Games throughout the decades. David Burnett has covered every Summer Games since 1984 - from Los Angeles, to Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London. He also made two forays into the Winter Games: in 2002 in his hometown of Salt Lake Cityand in Sochi in 2014.
His acclaimed sports photographs have been highly awarded by the World Press Photo Foundation, the International Olympic Committee and the China New Photographers’ Association, among others. « I have the luxury of neverhaving been the photographer who was relied upon to get the winner in thatvictorious pose » Burnett says. « So many photographers have greatexperience shooting those sports that I might onlysee once everyfour, or even twelve years. My mission, I feel, is to studythe sport, the motion, the players and to get pictures that spectators maynever witness bysimplysitting there observing the games. »
© David Burnett / Courtesy of Anastasia Photo and Contact Press Images
As one of the world’s most respected photojournalists working today, David Burnett has photographed in over 75 countries and witnessed numerous significant historical events spanning his nearly 50 year career. Burnett launched his career as an intern at Time magazine in1967. From 1970 to 1972, he covered the Vietnam War for Time and Life. In 1975, he co-founded the renowned agency Contact Press Images in New York, and has produced photographic essays for Time, Life, Fortune, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine, among many others. His awards include “Magazine Photographer of the Year” from the Pictures of the Year Competition, the ”World Press Photo of the Year”, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club, to name butafew. He is the author of E-motion : The Spirit of Sport (1997); Soul Rebel, AnIntimate Portrait of Bob Marley (2009); 44 Days : Iranand the Remaking of the World with an introduction by Christiane Amanpour (2010); and more recently of L’Homme Sans Gravité (2015).
