I'm going to have to get that one. My dad retouched a lot of the Life photos that were published between 1946 and 1966. Paul
On Jul 18, 2010, at 7:21 AM, frank theriault wrote: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Christine Aguila > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Having spent the last week reading page by page this lovely 605 page book >> published by Thames & Hudson (paperback 2009), I'd like to recommend it to >> PDML folks. Organized in alpha order, included is a brief biographical >> sketch of 88 photographers who were on Life's staff and, of course, photos >> made by the photographer. >> >> So many of the photographers have passed away, which would follow given >> Life's run from 1936-1972. The brief sketches do a great job of revealing >> the dedication and personality of the photographers, especially in their >> coverage of World War II. >> >> I'd like to share this brief biography of George Strock (1911-1977): >> >> " . . . Stroke joined LIFE and went off to the war in the Pacific. Initially >> he cabled editors that he saw so little action he was ready to quit and open >> a peanut stand. Other photographers did leave, but Strock stayed on for the >> Battle of Buna, which cost more than 3,000 Allied lives. On that malarial >> New Guinea island, Strock scrambled along side the soldiers. . . . At the >> time, censors banned showing any dead American soldiers, but LIFE raised the >> point with the government, and FDR himself decided the public was growing >> complacent and should see some of the reality; thus 'Three Dead Americans' >> ran in LIFE." >> >> I find that last bit about FDR very interesting. Cheers, Christine > > I didn't enjoy high school much - not the "academic" side of things > anyway. Once during a spare I was in the library and discovered that > we had bound volumes of every Life mag from Margaret Bourke-White's > first cover in 1936 (I still remember it's Fort Peck Dam) to about the > late fifties or early sixties. I spent many spares after that poring > over those issues. Damned if I didn't learn more history from those > than I did in 5 years of high school history classes. > > And of course, there were the photographs! I was already interested > in photography, but leafing through those marvelous pages crystallized > my hobby into something of an obsession. > > I think I'd really enjoy this book, Christine. Thanks for the recommendation. > > cheers, > frank > > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
