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Love, love, love the illustration on this. And yet another fine looking bowl of the goods. LIFE Magazine, July 28, 1941.
Gordon Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, on 30th November, 1912. Parks worked as a nightclub pianist and a railroad waiter, before taking up photography.
In 1937 Parks was invited to join the the Farm Security Administration to publicize the conditions of the rural poor in America through photography. Parks also worked on the Standard Oil project before becoming a staff photographer with Life Magazine (1948-68).
Parks made his directorial debut with Flavio (1964). This was followed by The World of Piri Thomas (1968) and The Learning Tree (1969), an adaptation of his autobiographical novel about growing up in Kansas. Other films made by Parks include Shaft (1971), Shaft's Big Score (1972), The Super Cops (1973), Leadbelly (1976) and Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984).
Gordon Parks died on 7th March, 2006.
Featured in the ad are popular 1950s TV characters Andy Devine and Guy Madison from the “Wild Bill Hickok” show (1951-1958), and the big-eared, freckle-faced wooden puppet Howdy Doody from an immensely popular children’s show (1947-1960).
Click to view the large size! The detail! The drama! The ocean zones as we thought they were in the late 1950s!
Direct scan of a spread from "The Sea: The Strange Animals and Plants of the Oceans." Adapted from the pages of Life Magazine; The Golden Library of Knowledge, Sterne, Elders and Lindsay, editiors. 1958, 1956, by Time, Inc.
BTW, this nifty hardback cost 50 cents new and $1.00 used at Saint Vincent de Paul Thrift Store in Houston.
Santa Claus got a new friend in 1942. Coca Cola introduced "Sprite Boy," a character who appeared with Santa in Coca Cola advertising throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Sprite Boy, who was also created by Haddon Sundblom, got his name because he was an elf, or sprite. By 1958 Sprite Boy had been phased out and, a few years later, Coca-Cola introduced the beverage Sprite which had first been developed in West Germany under the company’s global Fanta brand. [Source: The Coca-Cola Company Archives]
Title: Life Magazine oil
Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie
Date: ca. July - December 1937
Place: Louisiana Bayou, Louisiana
Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 12.8 x 17.9 cm.
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Only half the ad---My scanner cannnot quite accomodate the size of the old LIFE magazine.
May 1, 1964
A dark, lone walking man, without scarf, illustrates the severity of the New York blizzard of 1948!
January 1948 LIFE
Commissioner Roger Hartsell of the Maricopa County Superior Court was recently assigned to the division I work in (Family Court), and today he let me photograph some of his baseball memorabilia, with which he decorates his new office. This is the cover of the June 25, 1956 issue of Life magazine, with Mickey Mantle on the cover. That was his favorite year, and for good reason, as the 1956 season ended with him winning the Triple Crown (52 home runs, .363 batting average, 130 RBI). That is a rare accomplishment, and Frank Robinson (1966) and Carl Yastrzemski (1967) are the only players who have achieved the feat since the Mick did it 51 years ago.
Note the other articles highlighted on the cover. One was about Yugoslavia's President Tito, who was considered a maverick among Communist leaders in eastern Europe. And 1956 was also a Presidential election year in the United States; here Lyndon Johnson, who would be elected Vice-President in 1960 and succeed to the Presidency under tragic circumstances three years after that, is referred to as a Southern dark-horse.
Meanwhile, in 1956 I was all of three years of age, and unaware of any of this, although all of it would be of great interest to me as I grew older.
This past weekend my EVERYONE COULD USE A HERO fine-art exhibition had been blessed by non-other than the incomparable and enigmatic entrepreneur and brand strategist (oh, did I mention a Millionaire by the ripe old age of fourteen) and also Author of the New York Times bestseller top ten listed self-realization book entitled: REALLIONAIRE!!! This was Royalty right here. I was humbled by the surprise visit. (peace, Dr. Farrah)...
Copyright Robert W. Dickinson. Unauthorized use of this image without my express permission is a violation of copyright law.
A couple shots from the trash-the-dress photoshoot that Scott L Miller and I had with Megan LeAnn on 9/9/23. Great fun! Makeup by the very talented Aubz Photography & Makeup www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100035570032055.
I used a DigiBee 800 bounced off the ceiling and a touch of fill light via an Alien Bees B400 fired into a shoot-through umbrella, triggered by Pocket Wizards. Olympus E-M1X camera and Olympus 12-45mm f4.0 Pro lens.
A small group of people gathered on Federal Plaza, underneath the Alexander Calder sculpture, to protest the dictatorship in the African republic of Togo.
Representing hope and freedom, a 25 foot, 6,000 pound statue named, UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, by world-renowned artist, J. Seward Johnson, is a three-dimensional interpretation of a photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a Sailor, Carl Muscarello, kissing a nurse, Edith Shain, in Times Square, New York City on Aug. 14, 1945, following the announcement of V-J Day.
Edith Shain, the nurse memorialized in Eisenstaedt’s photo, states, "There is so much romance in the statue; it gives such a feeling of hope to all who look at it."
“This statue brings back so many memories of peace, love and happiness. During the moment of the kiss I don’t remember much, it happened so fast and it happened at the perfect time. I didn’t even look at the Sailor who was kissing me,” Shain continued. “I closed my eyes and enjoyed the moment like any woman would have done.”
For the next year, the sculpture will stand next to the USS Midway Museum on the San Diego Bay. It was previously displayed in New York City in 2005 and Sarasota, Florida in 2006.
NY Times - Edith Shain, Who Said Famous Kiss Came Her Way, Dies at 91
LA Times - Edith Shain dies at 91; WWII nurse in iconic Times Square kissing photo