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Life magazine and the power of photography /

Title:
Life magazine and the power of photography /
Format:
Book, Image
Institution:
Lesley Moriarty, Emerson College, MassArt, Museum of Fine Arts
Contents:
Life magazine and the power of photography / Katherine A. Bussard and Kristen Gresh -- 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.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emerson Main Stacks
TR820 .L5155 2020 – Available
Lesley-Moriarty Library Stacks
TR820 .L5155 2020 – Available
MassArt Main
TR820 .L5155 2020 – Available
MFA Main Library, Horticultural Hall, Reference
*TR820 .L5155 2020 – Available
MFA Prints, Drawings and Photographs Library
*TR820 .L5155 2020 – Available