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Article and pinup gallery of "The Girls of Hollywood" - complete with vital statistics - from the August 3, 1942 issue of Life Magazine.
(May have been a different time, but I know what I like.)
Over a thousand Chicagoans, from all walks of life and all parts of the city, came together at Millennium Park to perform "Crowd Out" by Davind Lang.
Although a bit chaotic in the beginning, once the leaders of each of the small groups that formed the whole got things in sync, it became a beautiful performance and a moving experience.
I came upon this event purely by accident and it took me a while to figure out what was going on.
Once surrounded by all these people, I was pretty much stuck, so you see some of the same faces over and over again.
Image created by me for my #ArtistsInStillLife project. My still life portrait of the artist Roxanne Patruznick. Appears in my 2026 calendar.
Molly Ringwald, 18, with Dweezil Zappa, Moon Unit Zappa,Matt Freeman, Beth Ringwald, Kelly Ringwald, Angie Ellen shot by Mark Sennet
Kodak pioneers the development of V-Mail to support the war efforts, in an ad taken from the October 26, 1942 issue of Life Magazine.
Keep in mind this was over 75 years ago!
Royal Gelatin Deserts advertisement featuring Billie Burke, and some nifty graphic cartoons, from the June 23, 1941 issue of Life Magazine.
"A big bouquet to Royal for this gay and summery desert."
This issue of Life Magazine from June 2, 1972 features beautiful Raquel Welch is on the cover, with her derby jersey, her skates, and not much else!
The cover says "Raquel, On Skates as a Derby Demon." The article profiles her role as a roller derby "demon" in the film "The Kansas City Bomber." There are several photos of Raquel and her teammates in the movie.
In addition to the article about Raquel, there are several noteworthy vintage ads in this magazine, including ads for The World Book Encyclopedia; retro cars from Detroit including the Hornet, Gremlin and Matador; and cool vintage Polaroid Land Cameras.
life magazine
left image: "here come the sidewalk surfers," june 5, 1964
right image: "skateboard mania," may 14, 1965
via google books
Movie stars (top to bottom) Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, & Robert Wagner in a silly photo taken for Life magazine, 1954. Before the rumors. No clue as to the photographer.
The original photo: www.doctormacro.com/Images/Curtis,%20Tony/Annex/Annex%20-...
Graphic illustration from the November 16, 1942 issue of Life Magazine in which we learn the REAL TRUTH ABOUT WHY THE AMERICANS WENT TO WAR!.
These are the things we are fighting for... THE RIGHT OF A WOMAN TO MARRY FOR LOVE AND NOT AT THE STATE'S COMMAND.
Illustrator: Alex Ross (Alexander Sharpe Ross)
Explore #129 2/24/09
If you got to pick someone to be friends with, someone to lunch with, and someone to have a romantic interlude with, who would you pick?
My choice about 15 years ago to this question was Katharine Hepburn for a friend, Jimmy Stewart for a lunch companion, and Kevin Costner for the romance.
Who would you choose?
The 1952 Ford introduced several notable advancements compared to earlier models:
•Engine Upgrade: The "Mileage Maker" straight-6 engine replaced the older L-head straight-6, offering improved performance with 101 horsepower. Ford’s high-compression “Strato-Star” V-8 was stepped up to 110 horsepower.
•Design Enhancements: It featured a curved one-piece windshield, a redesigned grille with a single center "bullet," and new trunk hinges that prevented crushing the contents. A lower center of gravity along with redesigned springs and shock absorbers gave a smoother ride.
•Interior Improvements: The dashboard included a "flight-style" control panel, suspended pedals, and standard gauges for voltmeter, gas, temperature, and oil pressure.
•Model Line Reshuffle: The base model was renamed "Mainline," the mid-level "Customline," and the top-tier "Crestline," which included options like the "Sunliner" convertible and "Victoria" hardtop.
These updates made the 1952 Ford more modern and user-friendly.
Color advertisement for the Mercury 8 Sedan, taken from the March 18, 1940 issue of Life Magazine.
"So we headed the MERCURY for Sun Valley!"
Joel-Peter Witkin's contemporary corpse photography is nothing new. In the earliest days of photography, in the 1840's, grieving parents of means, would hire a daguerreotypist to record, on the silver coated copper plate, a photo of their deceased child. This image was taken in either southern Arizona or northern Mexico. I would guess the latter. Mexicans would routinely photograph a loved one in their open coffin, surrounded by family members holding unlit candles.
Which is remindful of W. Eugene Smith's masterpiece from his 1951 Life magazine "Spanish Village" essay; where the dead body is ringed by the women in black. Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) or Michaelangelo Caravaggio (1571-1610) come to mind. Smith was one of the few photographers who printed their own photos for Life. Comparing Smith's original prints to the reproductions in Life are literally apples and oranges. I collect old Life magazines and the pages have turned yellow/brown from the acid. Even in 1951 Smith's exquisite prints were barely hinted at in the unremarkable magazine reproductions.
As I wrote earlier, I was a student of Smith. I attended his final class. I am the last person quoted in Jim Hughes' biography of Gene. I will write about my observations of him when I establish my own personal web site.
Note: Signed, numbered, limited edition, archival matte C-prints of this image can purchased on page 5 of my Etsy store: www.etsy.com/shop/davidleeguss
@2009 David Lee Guss Homage, W. Eugene Smith, funeral, 1890's-2008
This photo was taken from the balcony of the Minaret of the Al Fadhel Mosque in Manama in the presence of the Mosque's Imam, of the old waterfront (site of the present-day Government Avenue) and part of the old mixed commercial and residential centre of Manama. From bottom to top: the Almoayyed old family home with its wooden bridge connecting its southern section (site of the present-day Almoayyed car park) to its northern section (site of the present-day twin buildings of A.K. Almoayyed on Al Khalifa Avenue and Y.K. Almoayyed on Government Avenue) is the second property on the left, the extensive Gray Mackenzie shipping company premises (occupies the present-day site of several buildings including the HSBC vacant old offices, the Salahuddins, and the Yateem Shopping Centre to name a few) is the third property on the far left of the photo, the Judicial Court on the opposite side of the street with its small garden on the waterfront road (site of the present-day Constitutional Court), next to it from the top is yet another Gray Mackenzie's property (site of the present-day Downtown Rotana Hotel), and adjacent to it from the top is the Cable & Wireless premises (site of the present-day Batelco building) farther to the right is the Manama port with its long pier jutting out into the sea (site of the present-day Bahrain Financial Harbour), the customs house with its bonded warehouses is at the centre of the photo within the port's vicinity (the present-day site of The Manama Post Office and the adjacent car park), and the large square building further to the top of the photo, on the centre left, is the famous Helal Al-Mutairi's (formerly Yusuf Kanoo's) building, which was once the largest mixed-use building in the Arabian Gulf when it was constructed at the turn of the twentieth century by Bahraini merchant and banker Yusuf Kanoo (occupying the present-day site of the Unitag Group and its car park, the large rectangular commercial building alongside it, and the Regency Plaza building) in May 1945.
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