Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum, February 22-June 21, 2020 and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 19-December 13, 2020 -- Colophon. Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-323) and index.
Contents:
Life's final cover (1972) / Alissa Schapiro. 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.
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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.