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This is Charlene Dash in real life - unaltered by artificial intelligence, untouched by a psychedelic cosmetician . . . just the Charlene Dash you'd normally see off-camera. This picture was taken for a 1969 Life magazine feature on black fashion models gaining acceptance into the mainstream.
What I love about this picture is that it was taken backstage, as evidenced by all the utilitarian lighting equipment and wires in the background along with the light-bulb-framed mirrors. I would love to be behind the scenes of a fashion shoot or a fashion show, because that’s when you see models before they get all glammed up or after they’ve been de-glammed. And that’s how Charlene Dash looks here - devoid of any glam. And so she presents herself not as a model or as a goddess or anything like that. She presents herself as a woman. An extraordinarily beautiful woman, but still a woman as real, and as accessible, as any other woman.
Hepburn wearing Givenchy for a fashion editorial which appears in a May 1962 issue of LIFE Magazine.
The photograph is by Howell Conant
...listening to speakers during huge celebration in honor of their country's pioneers.
Dec. 1949
Photo: Margaret Bourke-White
Over a thousand Chicagoans from all over the city, gathered at Millennium Park to perform "Crowd Out" by David Lang.
I found these little treasures at Recycled Books earlier this afternoon. I love old Life magazines, and I couldn't have been happier to find these.
I also bought an issue of Life that covers the Kennedy assassination (not pictured).
Very pleased with my purchases.
...complete with "DRINK COCA COLA" sign at celebration at the foot of the Voortrekker monument in honour of the country's early Dutch settlers.
December 1949
Photo: Margaret Bourke-White
...of 900,000 sitting deep in an appalling yellow wasteland of mountainous refuse dumps, the dusty leftovers of six prosperous decades of gold mining.
Apr.1950
Photo: Margaret Bourke-White
Barnett, L. "The World We Live In: Part X. The Arctic Barrens" (Jun 7, 1954) Life, Vol. 36, No. 23
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For more information about the articles, please visit:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_We_Live_In_(Life_magazine)
The statue in the middle was erected in memory of South African troops who died in WWI
Nov 1946.
Photo: Nat Farbman
Kent, which is scientifically proven not to leave unsightly stains on paper, if you do these weird things with cigarettes.
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Original caption: At 5:40 A.M., the long suffering over, the mother first saw her son. She had no name for him, but a week later she chose Harris Lee.
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W. Eugene Smith’s Landmark Photo Essay, ‘Nurse Midwife’
“In December 1951, LIFE published one of the most extraordinary photo essays ever to appear in the magazine. Across a dozen pages and featuring more than 20 of the great W. Eugene Smith’ pictures, the story of a tireless South Carolina nurse and midwife named Maude Callen opened a window on a world that, surely, countless LIFE readers had never seen — and, perhaps, had never even imagined. Working in the rural South in the 1950s, in “an area of some 400 square miles veined with muddy roads,” as LIFE put it, Callen served as “doctor, dietician, psychologist, bail-goer and friend” to thousands of poor (most of them desperately poor) patients — only two percent of whom were white.”
“Nurse Midwife” as it appeared in the Dec. 3, 1951, issue of LIFE magazine.
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