John Loengard is known for arresting images that capture significant moments in time while superbly capturing the spirit of his subjects. Among his best-known photographs is certainly VJ Day in Times Square. On the other hand, Alfred Eisenstaedt exhibited great flexibility with his handheld Leica, managing to capture public spontaneity and impulsive actions. Well known for her animal portraits and contemplative approach to gender and women’s issues, Russian-American photographer Nina Leen produced work of an unsettling and surreal quality.
Kennedy (1960), the Buchenwald prisoners in Germany (1945), the construction of Fort Peck Dam (1936), and the jubilation of VJ Day (1945), to the feet of Gandhi spinning thread in India (1946), Frank Sinatra’s restaurant table in Miami, and the Beatles revelling in a pool in Miami Beach. The viewers will be taken on a journey through history, from the nomination of Senator John F. The display at Atlas Gallery will mirror the diversity of the LIFE Collection, in both subject matter and styles of the photographers. LIFE Magazine Photography at Atlas Gallery Edition of 250 / Right: Loomis Dean - Noel Coward, Las Vegas, 1955. Left: Alfred Eisenstaedt - VJ Day, Times Square, New York, August 14, 1945. announced it would cease regular publication with the May issue, it ran monthly as a moderately successful general-interest, news features magazine. With picture-heavy content as the driving force behind its popularity, the magazine suffered as television became society’s predominant means of communication. LIFE ceased running as a weekly publication in 1972 when it began losing audience and advertising dollars to television. It showed that an artist and photojournalist are not mutually exclusive professions and that documentary images can also be art. At the same time, LIFE was instrumental in the process of photojournalists gaining recognition and global exposure, providing them with opportunities to exercise their creativity and produce work that later gained art status. During the magazine's golden years, which was roughly from 1936 until the mid-1960s, it established itself as a vivid narrator of the country’s glamour and struggles. The groundbreaking publication featured large, high-quality photographs with its subject matter comprising everything that constituted "life": the day-to-day became heroic, while the glory of celebrity life, the daily politics and horror of war were brought to the public’s front doorstep.Ī photo-journalistic triumph, LIFE was a stunning affirmation of the humanist notion that the camera's proper function is to persuade and inform. Being the first all-photographic news magazine in the United States, LIFE 's role in the history of photojournalism is considered its most important contribution to publishing. Almost overnight, it changed the way people looked at the world by changing the way people could look at the world. The magazine was an overwhelming success in its first year of publication.
Throughout the decades, many generations of photographers passed through the magazine, as well as some of the greatest writers, editors, illustrators, and cartoonists of its time. Until 2000, LIFE Magazine commissioned more than 120,000 stories and 10 million photographs. The LIFE magazine was launched in 1883 as a lightweight publication mostly centered on humor, but after it was purchased by the owner of Time, Henry Luce, in 1936, it became a crucial weekly news publication in the United States focused on photojournalism. Margaret Bourke-White - Fort Peck Dam, Fort Peck, MT 1936.
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Eyerman, Andreas Feininger, and Joe Rosenthal, whose professional engagement in the events of the past hundred years led to an epic form of photojournalism that captured both momentous and intimate moments with unparalleled perception.
The audience will have an opportunity to see the work of stellar names associated with the magazine, such as Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Eisenstaedt, John Dominis, John Loengard, Nina Leen, J.R. LIFE: Selected Prints from the LIFE Magazine Collection (1936-2000) brings together memorable events, people, and places in modern history, photographed by some of the most famous photojournalists out there. For many decades, it hewed close to that often elusive balance between the news of the week and timeless photography. LIFE’s covers presented some of the biggest news of the 20th century - from World War II to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, from the space age to the assassination of President Kennedy, from the Beatles to Muhammad Ali, leaving a legacy of pages of history for us to devour today.Ītlas Gallery will present an exhibition celebrating the first American all-photographic news magazine. LIFE Magazine documented history as it happened.
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