Magnum Editions: River Li, Yangshuo, 1981 Framing:Custom Black Frame photographed by David ‘Chim’ Seymour

photographed by David ‘Chim’ Seymour at her palace on the Grand Canal

my mother [born in New York to Jewish immigrants] got a letter from a relative in the Soviet Union we didn’t know existed

both well-established and recently arrived

albeit altered by its battle with darkness and uneasy relationship with artificial light

Magnum Editions: River Li, Yangshuo, 1981 Framing:Custom Black Frame photographed by David ‘Chim’ SeymourBorn 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