After flying fifty-three combat missions in World War II, ART SHAY joined Life magazine as a staff reporter before leaving in 1951 to become one of American's leading photojournalists. His pictures regularly appeared in Life, Time, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated among many other magazines. Several have been singled out as among the most enduring American photographs ever taken.
Florence Shay was a force to be reckoned with, a marvelous, witty, beautiful and well-read lady whose husband Art loved her very much and took some pictures of her that pierce my heart: there she is, glorious Florence. I miss her (and her book shop, too). Art Shay's photographs bring us into their family, so immediately and warmly that it is a little shocking and quite wonderful. --Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife