WHAT A LIFE!
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE LIFE MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
This exhibition of black and white prints is drawn from the archives of LIFE magazine. From its first issue in 1936, LIFE magazine was a showcase for the best photographers working at the time. As an image-based magazine, photographs told the story and in a sense were the story. Covering everything from politics, wars, and world changing events to fashion, society, movies and sports, LIFE was eagerly awaited each week in innumerable households across the country. During its heyday the magazine was an important factor in shaping a homogenous national character.
The focus of this exhibition is the work that showed the inherent style of LIFE magazine’s photography. The great Alfred Eisenstaedt work includes his classic portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Dietrich among others, his iconic, joyful waiter, as well as the dancers, artists, landscapes, buildings and people that he captured with his genius. The exhibition also includes the monumental work of Margaret Bourke-White, Loomis Dean, Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen among others.