Friday, March 20, 2020

Remember Life Magazine?

Here are some photos from it that may spur memories. Note the names of the photographers; they were household names.


Cover of Life Magazine, 23 November, 1936: photo of Fort Peck Dam by Margaret Bourke-White (Credit: The Picture Collection Inc)


Normandy invasion on D-Day, soldier advancing through surf, 1944 by Robert Capa


Detail of contact sheet, Times Square, New York City, August 1945 by Alfred Eisenstaedt (Credit: The Picture Collection Inc)


Life photo editor Natalie Kosek reviews photographs, 1946 by unknown photographer (Credit: The Picture Collection Inc)


Midwife Maude Callen delivers a baby, Pineville, South Carolina, 1951 by W Eugene Smith (Credit: The Picture Collection Inc)


Audience watches movie wearing 3-D spectacles, 1952 by JR Eyerman (Credit: The Picture Collection Inc/ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Howard Greenberg Collection)

1 comment:

sdevito said...

Wow!!! Those were bolder times... What have we become?

(Ha, pun unintentional!!!)