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LIFE: Six Women Photographers, a new exhibition on view at the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library, aims to correct this imbalance, presenting more than 70 images taken by six early ...
July 3, 2019. From the depths of the Depression to the height of the Vietnam War, the photo essays in Life magazine told Americans how to see themselves. But in the 36 years that the magazine...
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Aug 14, 2023 · From 1954 to 1956, Life published 46 articles about civil rights, filling 160 pages of the magazine. Overwhelmingly, these chronicled the stories of Black efforts to advance integration and the ...
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Feb 9, 2008 · Times Staff Writer. Allan Grant, a Life magazine photographer who got the last photo shoot with Marilyn Monroe weeks before her death and the first pictures of Marina Oswald just hours after...
Life delivered that message inconsistently: only six female photographers ever joined the staff of the magazine that promised “big pictures, beautiful pictures, exciting pictures, pictures from ...
Jul 17, 2019 · During its heyday, between the late 1930s and the early 1970s, LIFE employed 110 staff – a mere six of whom were full-time women photographers. Yet, these remarkable women – Margaret Bourke-White, Marie Hansen, Martha Holmes, Lisa Larsen, Nina Leen and Hansel Mieth – helped shape the magazine’s identity and, to celebrate their unique ...
Dec 27, 2013 · Advertisement. Perhaps the most remarkable feature from the summer of 1945 was a 10-page spread about American folk songs. Overlaid on full-page photographs of appropriate American icons—a ...