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Kohler Foundation is honored to be working with photographer Burk Uzzle to preserve his body of work. The youngest photographer ever hired by LIFE magazine at the age of 23, Burk has had a tremendous and impressive career. Grounded in documentary photography, he was a member of the prestigious Magnum Cooperative. For 15 years he was an active contributor and ultimately served as Magnum’s president 1979-1980. During his 16 years with Magnum, he produced some of the most recognizable images we have of Woodstock, the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Killing Fields of Cambodia. During his career, he photographed celebrities like Robin Williams and Hugh Hefner, Robert Kennedy, business leaders and innovators, and ordinary people in street photography.
Now in his early 80’s, fit and energetic, Burk continues to work, although he has given up the nomadic life of a documentary photographer. He works and lives in his studio in Wilson, NC where he continues to do some of his best work. His current photography leans to artful and constructed reflections of his subjects, many of whom are African American residents of his local community.
Kohler Foundation has acquired some 75,000 negatives/transparencies and the “best of the best” of Burk’s prints numb
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©Burk Uzzle, Remains
I’ve been corresponding with legendary photographer Burk Uzzle over the past months and am excited to share a wonderful interview today, written by Janet Kagan. Burk is an exceptional photographer with a most amazing legacy. I was recently listening to an NPR podcast and Burk’s name came up. It turns out that Burk was the photographer who shot the Woodstock album cover, of the couple wrapped in a blanket. After exploring his legacy these past months, my first thought was “Of course it was!” Thank you Burk, for a life time of incredible work. – Aline Smithson
Burk’s friend Jethro Waters, the filmmaker of the film F11 and Be There, has just completed this short You Tube film on the making of “Remains” which is the photograph above.
The Evolved Documentarian : Interview with Burk Uzzle
by Janet Kagan (Arts Advisor + Associate Producer of F11 And Be There)
June 2018
Burk Uzzle has spent his life as a professional photographer. Initially grounded in documentary photography when he was the youngest contract photographer hired by LIFE magazine at age 23, his work continues to reflect the human condition. For sixteen years during the 1970s and 1980s, he was an active contributor to the evolution of Magn
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Burk Uzzle
Burk Uzzle is mainly American photojournalist, previously adherent of Magnum Photosand chairperson from 1979 to 1980.
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