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Title
Life magazine and the power of photography
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Outerbridge, Paul (photographer)
Rosenthal, Joe, 1911-2006 (photographer)
Bussard, Katherine A. (editor)
Gresh, Kristen (editor)
Princeton University. Art Museum (host institution)
Subject
Life (New York, N.Y.)--Pictorial works--Exhibitions. (LCSH)
Outerbridge, Paul. Nude with Fabric on Lap--Exhibitions. (LCSH)
Rosenthal, Joe, 1911-2006. Old Glory Goes Up on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima--Exhibitions. (LCSH)
Photojournalism--United States--History--20th century--Pictorial works--Exhibitions (LCSH)
Outerbridge, Paul--Exhibitions. (LCSH)
Rosenthal, Joe, 1911-2006--Exhibitions. (LCSH)
Photographie de presse--États-Unis--Histoire--20e siècle--Ouvrages illustrés--Expositions (RVM)
Rosenthal, Joe, 1911-2006
Outerbridge, Paul
Life (New York, NY)
Photojournalism
United States
1900-1999 (FAST)
Life Zeitschrift, New York, NY, 1936-2000 (GND)
Bildpublizistik (GND)
Life (New York, N.Y.)
Photojournalism--United States--History--20th century (NLI)
Genre Form
Catalogs (LCGFT)
Language
English (eng)
Illustrative Content
illustrations
portraits
facsimiles
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Geographic Coverage
Classification
LCC: TR820 .L5155 2020 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 070.4/9 full (Source: 23)
DDC: 770 full
Supplementary Content
bibliography (bibliography)
index (index)
Content
text (txt)
still image (sti)
Summary
From the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, the vast majority of the photographs printed and consumed in the United States appeared on the pages of illustrated magazines. Offering an in-depth look at the photography featured in Life magazine throughout its weekly run from 1936 to 1972, this publication examines how the magazine's use of images fundamentally shaped the modern idea of photography in the United States. The work of photographers such as Margaret Bourke-White, Larry Burrows, Henri Cartier- Bresson, Frank Dandridge, Gordon Parks, and W. Eugene Smith is explored in the context of the creative and editorial structures at Life. Drawing on unprecedented access to Life magazine's picture and paper archives, as well as photographers' archives, this publication presents an array of materials, including caption files, contact sheets, and shooting scripts, that shed new light on the collaborative process behind many now-iconic images and photo-essays
Table Of Contents
Life magazine and the power of photography / Katherine A. Bussard and Kristen Gresh
Making Life possible / Thierry Gervais
Three dummies for Life (1934-35) / Thierry Gervais
"A remarkable package of photographs for [a] dime" : how Life became Life / Mary Panzer
On deadline : Life as a weekly newsmagazine / Jason E. Hill
Printing Life magazine at R. R. Donnelley & Sons / Ellen Handy
Mainstream differences : the distinctive looks of Life and Look / Sally Stein
Life's impact : circulation, copycats, and reader response / Erika Doss
Margaret Bourke-White, Life's first cover (1936) / Sharon Corwin
Photo-essays at Life / Nadya Bair
Margaret Bourke-White, "Women in steel" (1943) / Alissa Schapiro
Yousuf Karsh's portrait of Winston Churchill (1941) / James Leighton
Life's indispensable women / Dolores Flamiano
Margaret Bourke-White, John Florea, George Rodger, and William Vandivert, "Atrocities" (1945) / Jeremy Adelman
Alfred Eisenstaedt's V-J Day kiss (1945) / Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites
The need for an enemy : Life's use of photography to portray the Cold War / Kristen Gresh
Henri Cartier-Bresson, "Chinese Gold Rush" (1949) / Michel Frizot
W. Eugene Smith, "Nurse midwife" (1951) / Dalia Habib Linssen
Motion pictures : Hollywood, celebrity, and Life / Caitlin E. Ryan
Gordon Parks, "Freedom's fearful foe : poverty" (1961) / Amanda Maddox and Paul Roth
George Silk, "Perfect ten point landing" (1962) / Meghan Angelos
Spatializing race relations in the pages of Life magazine / Katherine A. Bussard
Fritz Goro, "The amazing laser" (1963) / Rachael Z. DeLue
Abraham Zapruder, "Split-second sequence as the bullets struck" (1963) / Catherine Zuromskis
Color art photography's status in Life magazine / Alissa Schapiro
NASA, "To the moon and back" (1969) / Alissa Schapiro
Picturing conflict / Liam Kennedy
Life's final cover (1972) / Alissa Schapiro
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Life magazine and the power of photography
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