from Queens come kings” is the opening bar on “Raising Hell
I was overwhelmed by the great vitality of what I saw
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While his famous endorsement of the ‘by any means necessary’ stance set him at odds with prominent pacifist African American leaders like Dr Martin Luther King
Glinn worked as a freelancer before becoming an associate member of Magnum in 1951
Magnum Editions: River Li, Yangshuo, 1981 Jazz from Queens come kings” isBorn in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Burt Glinn served in the United States Army before studying literature at Harvard University, where he edited and photographed for the Harvard Crimson college newspaper. Glinn worked as a freelancer before becoming an associate member of Magnum in 1951, along with Eve Arnold and Dennis Stock the first Americans to join the young photo agency. Versatile and technically brilliant, Glinn would become one of Magnums great