LIFE - For those of Us Who Remember and Those of Us Who Will Learn

[boojum]

A huge retrospective of LIFE magazine's photography. Am magazine famed for its photographic essays. https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts...it-boston/?itid=hp-more-top-stories_p003_f007

 

[Freakscene]

Most of Life with the best photography is here: https://books.google.com.au/books/about/LIFE.html?id=N0EEAAAAMBAJ&redir_esc=y online, and free.

Marty

 

[boojum]

Most of Life with the best photography is here: https://books.google.com.au/books/about/LIFE.html?id=N0EEAAAAMBAJ&redir_esc=y online, and free.

Marty

Fabulous, thanks.

 

[markjwyatt]

Join this Flickr Group: https://www.flickr.com/groups/lyfe/

 

[raydm6]

There was also "Look" Magazine which included some excellent photography.

Processing and Cataloging the LOOK Magazine Collection

The Museum of the City of New York has just embarked on a project to catalog, process, and digitize the Museum’s LOOK magazine photo archive collection, generously funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This large collection dates from 1938 to 1968, and it chronicles a fascinating time in American history, principally by way of human interest stories—which was LOOK magazine’s unique emphasis compared to other, more news-focused magazines that were its contemporaries.

The NYC Collection is available here: https://collections.mcny.org/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=24UAYW55IJIJI

At the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/collections/look...is-collection/

About this Collection

The Look Magazine Photograph Collection is a vast photographic archive created to illustrate Look Magazine and related publications produced by companies founded by Gardner Cowles. The cataloged portion of the collection totals some four million published and unpublished images made by photographers working for Look, most dating 1952-1971. With its coverage of U.S. and international lifestyles, celebrities, and events, the collection offers insight into the magazine's photojournalistic documentation of aspects of society and culture--particularly American society and culture--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Cowles Communications donated the bulk of the archive to the Library of Congress in 1971, after Look magazine ceased publication.


Background and Scope

Introduction

Sample contact sheet from Look magazine collection and page from a corresponding article showing the selection of photos that were published.


Charlotte Brooks, photographer. [Fluoridation: Why all the controversy?]. Contact sheet. LOOK - Job 58-7809-Z
LC-USZ62-126852

The Look Magazine Photograph Collection is the photographic archive of Look magazine. The full collection, which includes cataloged and uncataloged portions, consists of images published in Look magazine between 1937 and 1971, as well as images that the magazine never published. It totals approximately 5 million items consisting of:

• black-and-white negatives (35 mm, 120 size, 4x5 inches and 8x10 inches)
• black-and-white contact sheets
• color transparencies and slides (35 mm, 120 size, 4x5 inches and 8x10 inches)

 

[Out to Lunch]

A good collection of photos from a time when white men from the Western Hemisphere would venture out into the world and show a Western audience how 'other people' lived their lives. A good thing that's less the case today. Cheers, OtL