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DAVID BURNETT |
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E D G E O F P E R F E C T I O N |
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May 17 - July 9, 2005 |
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Artist Statement The world of sport is a world unto itself. In ways that most of us will never know, great athletes have the ability to touch the edge of perfection, to feel and understand just how close the human body can be to its absolute best. Its strongest, fastest, highest. As a photographer, chasing the images of these athletes presents its own set of problems. I have chosen to try and find those moments on the edge of perfection. Not necessarily THE best athlete, nor the winning one, but that moment where the camera can see, in ways the living eye cannot, the approach of physical perfection. |
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David Burnett has been photographing the world for more than 35 years. A native of Salt Lake City, he began taking pictures while in high school, and soon thereafter was selling pictures of high school sporting events to the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News. He graduated from Colorado College in 1968 (B.A. Political Science) and began working as a free lancer for Time, and later Life magazines, at first in Washington DC and Miami, and later in South Viet Nam. After two years in Vietnam, and the demise of Life weekly, he joined the French photo agency Gamma, traveling the world for their news department for two years. In 1975 he co-founded Contact Press Images, in New York. Over the last three decades, he has traveled extensively, working for most of the major photographic and general interest magazines in the U.S. and Europe. His work encompasses News, Feature, and People pictures, as well as landscapes and scenics. He is known as someone who can, no matter how challenging the assignment, return with “The Picture.”
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His awards include “Magazine Photographer of the Year” from the Pictures of the Year Competition, the “World Press Photo of the Year”, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club. He continues working around the world, having traveled to more than 75 countries, producing photographic essays for Time, Life, Fortune, The New Yorker, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and many others as well as working on major Advertising campaigns, including “Union Bank of Switzerland”, Kodak, Rolex, Merck, and the U.S. Army.
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The photography series is curated by James Price and Anna Van Lenten
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Previous exhibitions at The Half King
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