Charles Harbutt Overcame Many Obstacles In His Career, Most Notably Cynicism.
By Margaret Regan
AFTER 15 YEARS, Charles Harbutt was a seasoned photojournalist.
He had witnessed the early days of Castro s revolution, he d been
shot at during the Six Day War in the Middle East and he d sloshed
through the mud at Woodstock. Yet in the spring of 1970, Harbutt the latest photographer to
be honored with a permanent archive of his work at the UA Center
for Creative Photography saw something so horrifying it made
him seriously question the value of his profession. It was the
cynical manipulation of a news event by the U.S. government.