Tag Archives: Life Magazine

Fashion Check

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

While many are huddled inside, trying to stay warm, fashion designers around the globe will be busy showcasing their Spring 2013 collections. New York’s Fashion Week will commence on February 7 and fashion editors, stylists, and buyers will try their … Continue reading →

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Phone Booth Stuffing!

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

Joe Munroe, [Twenty-two students cramming into a telephone booth to try and establish a stacking record, St. Mary's College, Moraga, California], 1959 (1241.2005) Phone booth stuffing, or the act of cramming as many people as possible into a phone booth, began … Continue reading →

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“Trick Mirror Shows Some Human Conceits”

Posted on October 5, 2012 by

Yale Joel, [Woman checking eyelid in trick mirror, lobby of Broadway movie theater, Times Square, New York], 1946 (1930.2005) Yale Joel, [Man adjusting overcoat and grimacing, while looking in trick mirror, lobby of Broadway movie theater, Times Square, New York], 1946 … Continue reading →

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Apartheid in South Africa

Posted on September 13, 2012 by

Margaret Bourke-White, [Man standing next to statue with chalked protest message outside city hall, Johannesburg], 1950 (1711.2005) Margaret Bourke-White, [Carpenter Phillip Mbhele wearing “We don’t want passes” tag speaking against the Afrikaner’s pass system that requires all native South Africans … Continue reading →

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Focus on Fashion: Hats

Posted on August 16, 2012 by

Seeberger Frères, [Two Unidentified Women, Deauville, France], August 18, 1912 Alfred Eisenstaedt, Janet MacLeod wearing a black-eyed veil attached to a hat by Lilly Daché, New York City, 1937 LIFE, October 5, 1942 Jack Delano, Miss Selma Barbour, Manager of … Continue reading →

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75th Anniversary of the Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

Posted on July 2, 2012 by

Unidentified Photographer, [Amelia Earhart showing the size of Howland Island], 1937 This image was run after Earhart’s disappearance: “Several months ago, when Amelia Earhart disclosed plans for her around-the-world flight, a reporter asked her how big Howland Island would look … Continue reading →

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Happy 100th birthday Robert Doisneau!

Posted on April 14, 2012 by

On this day in 1912, Robert Doisneau was born in the Parisian suburb of Gentilly. If Robert Doisneau’s assignment for LIFE in June 1950, known as The Kiss by the Hotel de Ville, has been widely reproduced and is world … Continue reading →

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Football Nostalgia

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

It has been an long week since the longed-for Super Bowl concluded the 2011 NFL season. For all of you who have been on hold since then, watching the replays and impatiently waiting for September 6, the opening of the … Continue reading →

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Depicting Translations of Realities and Surrealities

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

The use of sculpture in photography has been around for a while, as seen in the works of Hans Bellmer, Man Ray, Claude Cahun, and others. It is the instances that present undeniable human parallels that can be the most … Continue reading →

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Operation Prairie

Posted on November 8, 2010 by

I’m no more courageous than anyone else. I just feel that photography is important. And I will do what is required to show what is happening. I have a sense of the ultimate—death. And sometimes I must say, “To hell … Continue reading →

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