After serving in the army during World War II, Burt Glinn (1925-2008) earned his B.A. from Harvard University, where he wrote and photographed for the Harvard Crimson. Glinn worked at Life magazine from 1949 to 1950 before turning full-time to freelancing. He joined Magnum Photos in 1951, becoming one of the first American members of the young photo agency. In the ensuing years, Glinn’s photographs regularly appeared in Travel and Leisure, Esquire, Geo, Life, Fortune, and Paris-Match. Among his subjects were the Sinai War, the U.S. Marine invasion of Lebanon, and Fidel Castro’s takeover of Cuba. In 1959, he received the Mathew Brady Award for Magazine Photographer of the Year from the University of Missouri. In collaboration with the writer Laurens van der Post, Glinn created the books The Dark Eye in Africa (1955), A Portrait of All the Russias (1967), and A Portrait of Japan (1968), all published by William Morrow. His final book, Havana: The Revolutionary Moment, was released by Umbrage Editions in 2002. Glinn, considered to be one of Magnum’s greatest corporate and advertising photographers, was president of the organization from 1972 to 1975. 

Director of the Inge Morath Foundation in New York City, John Jacob also serves as director of the Magnum Foundation Legacy Program. From 1992 to 2000, Jacob directed the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University. His books include Inge Morath: First Color (2009); Man Ray: Trees + Flowers - Insects Animals (2009); and Kodak Girl: From the Martha Cooper Collection (all published by Steidl). Jacob is the recipient of the 2012 Shpilman Photography Prize.