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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.
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
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.
Little Richard, Dino Zoff, George Best, Humphrey Bogart, "Nora Batty" (Kathy Staff), Marlon Brando, Paul McCartney, Janis Joplin, Life magazine photos.
This "Young Readers Edition: The Earth" is a hardbound book published by Life Magazine. I fell in love with the superb cover graphic.
Arthur Beiser is the editor.
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.
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Time Covers - The 70S
TIME cover 01-14-1974 The Human Brain, sculpture by John Wilson.
Date taken:January 14, 1974
Photographer:Henry Groskinsky
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.