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 several advisory committees of museums and was a trustee and the chairman of the photography committee at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He was also chairman of the photography magazine Aperture.
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Early life
Shirley Carter 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. He was the brother of Ambassador William Armistead Moale Burden Jr. Their maternal grandparents were Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly (1854–1952) of the Vanderbilt family and Hamilton McKown Twombly (1849–1910), and the brothers were great-great-grandsons of Cornelius Vanderbilt.