Background
Charles Henry Harbutt was born July on 29, 1935 in Camden, New Jersey, United States and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey.
(On New Year's Day, 1959, the news broke that Cuba's bruta...)
On New Year's Day, 1959, the news broke that Cuba's brutal dictator Batista had fled the country, looting it as he went. In the hills of the Sierra Maestra, the 32-year-old rebel leader Fidel Castro prepared his triumphal arrival in Havana. Photographer Charles Harbutt, then 23 years old, covered those first heady days in the capital.
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Charles Henry Harbutt was born July on 29, 1935 in Camden, New Jersey, United States and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey.
Charles Harbutt attended Regis High School in New York City where he took photographs for the school newspaper. He later graduated from Marquette University.
Harbutt's work is deeply rooted in the modern photojournalist tradition. Foreign the first twenty years of his career Charles Harbutt contributed to major magazines in the United States, Europe and Japan. His work was often intrinsically political, exhibiting social and economic contingencies.
Charles Harbutt joined Magnum Photos and was elected president of the organization twice, first in 1979. He left the group in 1981, citing its increasingly commercial ambitions and the desire to pursue more personal work.
Charles Harbutt taught photography workshops, exhibited in solo and group shows around the world, and joined the faculty of the Parsons School of Design at New School University as a full-time professor, in addition to serving as guest artist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Rhode Island School of Design.
His work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of American History, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the United States. Library of Congress, George Eastman House, the Art Institute of Chicago, the International Center of Photography, the Center for Creative Photography, and at the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Beaubourg, and the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris. In 1997, his negatives, master prints, and archives were acquired for the collection of the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.
Charles Harbutt died in Monteagle, Tennessee, on June 30, 2015, at the age of 79.
(On New Year's Day, 1959, the news broke that Cuba's bruta...)
Charles Harbutt was a founding member of Archive Pictures Incorporated., an international documentary photographers cooperative, and a member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers.