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Shirley Burden (Shirley Carter Burden) was born on 9 December, 1908 in New York City, is an American film producer. Discover Shirley Burden's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

Popular As Shirley Carter Burden
Occupation Writer, photographer
Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 9 December, 1908
Birthday 9 December
Birthplace New York City
Date of death 3 June, 1989
Died Place Teterboro, New Jersey
Nationality United States

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Who Is Shirley Burden's Wife?

His wife is Flobelle Fairbanks (m. 1937-1969) Julietta Valverde Lyon (m. 1971)

Family
Parents William Armistead Moale Burden Sr. Florence Vanderbilt Twombly
Wife Flobelle Fairbanks (m. 1937-1969) Julietta Valverde Lyon (m. 1971)
Sibling Not Available
Children Margaret Florence Shirley Carter Burden, Jr.

Shirley Burden Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Shirley Burden worth at the age of 80 years old? Shirley Burden’s income source is mostly from being a successful film. He is from United States. We have estimated Shirley Burden's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Source of Income film

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Timeline

1854

He was the brother of Ambassador William Armistead Moale Burden Jr. His maternal grandparents were Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly (1854–1952) and Hamilton McKown Twombly (1849–1910), and he was a great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt.

1908

Shirley Carter Burden (December 9, 1908 – June 3, 1989) was an American photographer, author of picture essays on racism, Catholicism, and history of place.

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, which named the Burden Gallery (New York) in his honor.

Burden was born on December 9, 1908, in New York City, the younger son of William Armistead Moale Burden Sr. and Florence Vanderbilt (née Twombly) Burden.

1924

Beginning in 1924, Burden assisted at Pathé News.

1926

He was at the Browning School in New York City until 1926, but did not go on to college or university education.

In 1926, he and his cousin filmed an Ontario Indian tribe for their The Silent Enemy, and from 1927 held a minor position at Paramount Studios.

1929

A 1929 meeting with Edward Steichen inspired his interest in photography and later gained his mentorship.

He sought better motion picture prospects in California and Hollywood and from 1929 to 1934 used his contact Merian C. Cooper to gain associate producer work, most significantly at RKO on Academy Award nominated "She".

1934

In 1934, Burden married Flobelle Fairbanks, an actress and niece of actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Together, they were the parents of two children, a daughter and a son:

1942

During World War 2 Burden established Tradefilms in 1942, successfully producing training films which were then in demand from the US Navy, the Office of Education, and Lockheed Aircraft.

1946

This business was unsustainable postwar and Burden and Tradefilms partner Todd Walker opened a photography studio in Beverly Hills, California, in 1946, producing advertising and architectural photography for magazines Architectural Forum, House and Garden, Arts and Architecture.

1952

Dissatisfied with commercial photography, and having embraced Roman Catholicism, Burden decided on a more fulfilling fine art career, encouraged by Minor White whom he met in 1952.

The friendship developed into his patronage of White's Aperture magazine.

1955

He assisted Edward Steichen in gathering photography for, and subsequently contributing images to, MoMA's highly successful, international travelling Family of Man (1955), working on this also with Dorothea Lange whom he befriended.

1958

These contacts and experience launched a successful fine art photography career.; his photo-essay on the all-but-abandoned Ellis Island, was exhibited under the auspices of the City of New York, and an invitation to exhibit his essay on the Weehawken ferry at MoMA in Diogenes With a Camera IV in 1958, curated by Steichen, who encouraged Burden to photograph Trappist monks at the abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, Kentucky (God Is My Life).

1960

Travel to Lourdes in 1960 resulted in Behold Thy Mother, published by Doubleday in 1965, and notoriety continued with the well publicised I Wonder Why, which documented racism experienced by a young black girl.

1969

After the death of his first wife Flobelle on January 5, 1969, Burden married Julietta Valverde Lyon in 1971.

1978

He continued with his photo essays (on Japan, and his ancestors, the Vanderbilts ) and he repaid his success by chairing or advising a range of photography organisations, and teaching (1978–81, at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.).

1989

Burden died June 3, 1989, above Teterboro Airport, on a Los Angeles to New York flight.

His grandson, S. Carter Burden III, is the founder of the managed web hosting provider Logicworks.

His granddaughter, Constance Childs, married celebrity chef and Food Network host David Rosengarten.

He gifted or exchanged, in memory of his first wife Flobelle, large numbers of photographs from his generous and eclectic collection of modernist works to MoMA, The Centre for Photography and other institutions.

In 1989, 5 years after Aperture moved headquarters to a five-story brownstone at 20 East 23rd Street in New York, the building's second floor was devoted to the Burden Gallery, in recognition of Burden's longtime support.

1999

The Burden Professorship in Photography at Harvard University in 1999 was established posthumously by his family.