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Title: Life - Oil
Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie
Date: ca. July - December 1937
Place: Gladewater, Texas
Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 2.8 x 10.6 cm.
File: ag1982_0234_1631_33_life_sm_opt.jpg
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Norman Rockwell created many ads for the Orange Crush Company that year. The ads were published in magazines such as “Collier's,” “The Literary Digest,” “The Youth's Companion,” and “Life.” He was 27 at the time.
In his autobiography, “My Adventures as an Illustrator” published in 1960, Rockwell wrote about how he was so deeply immersed in the Orange Crush illustrations that he began to visualize the bottles in his sleep. He described a vivid dream where “long lines” of Orange Crush bottles, both quart and regular size, were “marching down on me” with their labels clearly visible. This anecdote, along with the numerous Orange Crush ads he created, twelve in all, indicates a strong connection and perhaps a genuine liking for the soda and the brand.
[Note: In 1959, after his wife Mary died suddenly from a heart attack, Rockwell took time off from his work to grieve. It was during that break that he and his son Thomas produced Rockwell's autobiography, “My Adventures as an Illustrator.”]
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.
“A few years later a christening occurs, and here we leave him, with the honorable Viola Fitzmaurice on one knee and Mr. Hiram Pipp Willing on the other. Although the education of Mr. Pipp may be complete in some particulars, he has learned that he has not lived in vain.” [Text accompanying the illustration]
Mr. Pipp is a diminutive, somewhat overwhelmed figure who becomes the centerpiece of a social comedy. He was an original character created by the renowned American illustrator Charles Dana Gibson. In "The Education of Mr. Pipp," the story unfolds as Mr. Pipp takes his wife and two glamorous daughters—classic "Gibson Girls"—on a Grand Tour of Europe. As a small, unassuming figure, Mr. Pipp was the perfect foil to the glamorous "Gibson Girls,” who represented the idealized beauty and confidence of the era. Much of the humor and charm came from Mr. Pipp's hapless demeanor and struggles to navigate high society while his daughters effortlessly dazzled everyone around them.
His daughters symbolized the new modern woman, while Mr. Pipp reflected the older generation, often bewildered by their sophistication. This dynamic resonated with audiences, making Gibson’s illustrations both entertaining and culturally relevant.
Gibson's work was so popular that "The Education of Mr. Pipp" was later adapted into a Broadway play in 1905 and even a film in 1914. It's a fascinating example of how Gibson's illustrations captured and satirized the social dynamics of his time.
Charles Dana Gibson's work, particularly his creation of the "Gibson Girl," had a profound impact on American culture during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The "Gibson Girl" became an iconic representation of the idealized modern American woman—confident, stylish, athletic, and independent. This figure not only influenced fashion trends but also reflected and shaped societal attitudes toward femininity and women's roles.
Madeleine Carroll stars as double-edged vintage cougar/homewrecker/basic nympho with a great make-up artist. LIFE Magazine movie promo, issue April 8, 1940. 10 cents at the time :)
Paperback. Rare! I was not able to locate another copy. 1062 pages. Though there is no publisher's date inside the book, it was published in 1920. There is an inscription inside the front cover on the first page dated 1926. Two publishers listed. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. New York_Charles Scribner's Sons. This copy is printed in Great Britain. The pages contain some browning, indicative of a 92 year old book. The pages are almost completely separated from the spine between pages 30 and 31. There is some tearing of the front and back covers and both contain an emblem with scrolling ribbon which the owner wrote her name in, in pencil. The paper cover over the spine is missing. Considering its age, this book is in remarkable condition. All pages are intact. The book contains: Contents: Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, King Lear, Othello, the Moor of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, Pericles.
Little Richard, Dino Zoff, George Best, Humphrey Bogart, "Nora Batty" (Kathy Staff), Marlon Brando, Paul McCartney, Janis Joplin, Life magazine photos.
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.
Life magazines photographs covering the arrival of US troops in Northern Ireland during 1942, were all taken by David E. Scherman, and Getty Images currently hold over 3,000 of his photographs in their archives. In his portrait here, the camera Scherman holds is a Contax II made by Zeiss. Ironic perhaps that it originated in Germany, and was favoured among press photographers covering the Allied aspect of the war.
Brief Biography
David Edward Scherman was born in Manhattan, one of two sons of William S. and Celia Scherman. His father, a businessman, moved the family to New Rochelle, N.Y. where David attended public high school and graduated in 1936 from Dartmouth College.
His career as a photojournalist began when he bought a Leica camera and took a series of pictures of Manhattan which he , showed to Life Magazine's editors, and was hired as a copy boy. The staff of that era also included notable photographers like Alfred Eisensdtadt; Margaret Bourke-White; and Gordon Parks.
During WW2 he first achieved prominence after surviving the the sinking of an ocean liner. In a manuscript he was writing before his death, he recalled the events of April 17, 1941, when he and 201 others were heading toward Cape Town on the Egyptian liner Zamzam. He said one passenger on deck late at night saw ''flashing lights winking from a dark hulk,'' then heard two ear-shattering explosions.'' Subsequently the passengers were taken aboard the German vessel, and on to Portugal. Scherman smuggled out exposed negatives of the incident stuffed in toothpaste tubes, and successfully passed inspection by German officers, being released two weeks after the sinking. After Life printed the photos, British naval units that had been searching for the surface raider with the capability to fire torpedoes used one of the pictures to identify the vessel leading to its eventual destruction.
As a photographer on assignment during WW2, he covered the D-Day invasion of Europe, the initial battles in Normandy and the liberation of Paris before being shot down in an observation plane over Germany. He was also one of the first photographers to enter Munich, where he photographed Lee Miller (with whom he'd formed a strong working relationship) in Hitlers bath.
During his career at Life, Scherman became the only photographer to hold the position of editor at the magazine, eventually became senior editor in charge of movie, book and television reviews. At the time of the magazines demise as a weekly publication in 1972, he edited and helped write the text for the best-selling book, ''The Best of Life.'' He also contributed to books including ''First of the Many'' and ''Literary America.''
During his visits to Northern Ireland, Scherman took over 400 photographs, an unparalleled body of work by any American photojournalist covering the activities of United States forces there. He died on 5th May 1997 at Stony Point, New York aged 81.
In 2023 actor Andy Samberg played the role of Scherman in the film Lee. The period drama told story of photographer Lee Miller and stared Kate Winslet in the lead role.
Image source
The LIFE Picture Collection
Photographer: David E. Scherman
Year: 1942
via: LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
“When her little sister came to town.”
Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) was a highly popular illustrator for major national magazines during the first quarter of the 20th century. He created elegant pen and ink illustrations that were evocative of American life, his most popular creation being the glamorous and independent Gibson Girl. He first established her popularity in “Life” magazine in the two years 1899-1900, creating almost weekly images illustrating romantic and other relationships.
A package of Stamps from the Celebrate the Century series put out in 1998 by USPS in anticipation of the turn of the century.
For the first eight sheets (1900s to 1970s) of the fifteen stamps, one stamp of each sheet was printed using the intaglio process [1], while the remaining fourteen were offset printed along with the rest of the sheet.
1930s
Title: Depression, Dust Bowl, and a New Deal.
Date of issue: 9 October 1998.
Denomination: 32¢
No of stamps in sheet: 15
The stamps:
1st row: Franklin D. Roosevelt; Empire State Building; Life Magazine; Eleanor Roosevelt; New Deal Program
2nd row: Superman; Household Conviniences; movie: Snow White; novel: Gone with the Wind; Jesse Owens
3rd row: 20th Century Limited; Golden Gate Bridge; Florence Owens Thompson
4th row: Bobby Jones; Monopoly
Background image: A farmer and two sons flee a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma in April 1936.
Intaglio stamp: Empire State Building.
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