Shirley Burden

Shirley Burden
Born
Shirley Carter Burden

December 9, 1908
New York City
DiedJune 3, 1989(1989-06-03) (aged 80)
Teterboro, New Jersey
EducationBrowning School
Occupation(s)Writer, photographer
Spouses
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(m. 1937; died 1969)​
Julietta Valverde Lyon
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(m. 1971)​
ChildrenMargaret Florence
Shirley Carter Burden, Jr.
Parent(s)William Armistead Moale Burden Sr.
Florence Vanderbilt Twombly
RelativesFlorence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly (grandmother)
Hamilton McKown Twombly (grandfather)
FamilySee Vanderbilt

Shirley Carter Burden (December 9, 1908 – June 3, 1989) was an American photographer,[1][2] author of picture essays on racism, Catholicism, and history of place.[3][4] He served on advisory committees of museums, including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California, and was the Photography Committee chairman at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and of Aperture,[5] which named the Burden Gallery (New York) in his honor.

  1. ^ Burden, Shirley C (1981). Presence : Photographs With Observations. Aperture Inc, Millerton, N.Y
  2. ^ Shirley Burden: Photographs of Ellis Island in the 1950s Dates: June 17, 1987 – September 14, 1987 [1] accessed Feb 17 2015
  3. ^ Burden, Shirley C (1985). Chairs. Aperture : Distributed by Viking Penguin, New York
  4. ^ Kotker, Norman & Jonas, Susan & United States. National Park Service & Montclair State College (1989). Ellis Island : echoes from a nation's past. Aperture Foundation in association with the National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior and Montclair State College : Farrar, Straus and Giroux [distributor], New York, N.Y
  5. ^ Shirley C. Burden, 1909–1989. (obituary). (1989-06-22). In Aperture. (n115), p78(1).