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US photographer Burt Glinn, who began his career with Life magazine before joining Magnum and who covered events such as Fidel Castro's Cuba campaign and the Battle of Sinai, died Wednesday in New York aged 82, Magnum said. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on July 23, 1925, Glinn studied literature at Harvard and began shooting for the university paper. After a spell at Life, he was one of the first Americans to join the then fledgling Magnum in 1951 and with writer Laurens van der Post published a book on Russia and Japan. He notably covered Castro's takeover in 1958-1959, the 1973 Sinai battle and the 1956 landing of US marines in Beirut.