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Katherine A. Bussard Kristen Gresh

Life Magazine and the Power of Photography

Katherine A. Bussard,  Kristen Gresh,  Nadya Bair ,  Katherine A. Bussard

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English
Yale University
06 July 2020
Photographic reportage
The first comprehensive consideration of Life magazine’s groundbreaking and influential contribution to the history of photography

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 volume examines how the magazine’s use of images fundamentally shaped the modern idea of photography in the United States. The work of photographers both celebrated and overlooked—including Margaret Bourke-White, Larry Burrows, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Frank Dandridge, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Fritz Goro, Gordon Parks, and W. Eugene Smith—is explored in the context of the creative and editorial structures at Life. Contributions from 25 scholars in a range of fields, from art history to American studies, provide insights into how the photographs published in Life—used to promote a predominately white, middle-class perspective—came to play a role in cultural dialogues in the United States around war, race, technology, art, and national identity.

Drawing on unprecedented access to Life magazine’s picture and paper archives, as well as photographers’ archives, this generously illustrated volume presents previously unpublished materials, such as caption files, contact sheets, and shooting scripts, that shed new light on the collaborative process behind many now-iconic images and photo-essays.
Contributions by:   , ,
Edited by:   ,
Imprint:   Yale University
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 318mm,  Width: 222mm,  Spine: 4mm
Weight:   2.495kg
ISBN:   9780300250886
ISBN 10:   0300250886
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Katherine A. Bussard is the Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography at the Princeton University Art Museum. Kristen Gresh is the Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Senior Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Reviews for Life Magazine and the Power of Photography

Builds upon new research in the Life archive at the New-York Historical Society to present a selection of some ninety photographs reproduced in Luce's 'biggest picture show on earth', as well as copies of the magazines in which these prints appeared, contact sheets, shooting scripts, internal memos and layout experiments. -Robert Silberman, The Burlington Magazine CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2022


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