Fine Print: Sammy Davis Jr. looks out of a Manhattan window. New York City, USA, 1959 Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) For Chien-Chi Chang in 2010

For Chien-Chi Chang in 2010

A future classic of photography

before joining the Dalmas agency as a reporter two years later

which inspired the photographer’s subsequent life’s work

a couple dances in motion-blurred elegance—her white dress sharply outlined against the shadows

Fine Print: Sammy Davis Jr. looks out of a Manhattan window. New York City, USA, 1959 Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) For Chien-Chi Chang in 2010Burt Glinn photographed the Beat generation in their natural habitats in New York and San Francisco from 1957 to 1960. His documentation reflects a spontaneity inherent to the Beat philosophy: arms flail, music plays, people talk, eat, dance, paint. They are wrought with emotion and tension, and yet exude a calculated nonchalance. Pictured here is legendary singer and musician, Sammy Davis Jnr, as he looks out of his Manhattan apartment window in 1959.