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According to Legend, in Tokyo in June 1950, a young Japanese photographer, Jun Miki, a part-timer for ‘Life’ magazine showed two American photojournalists, David Duncan and Horace Bristol, some prints he had taken with a barely known ‘Nikkor’ lens on a Leica 35mm camera. They were both sufficiently impressed to arrange for a trip for the three of them to the nearby Nippon Kogaku factory where they were given a demonstration and a comparison between the Nikkors and the lenses made by Leitz and Zeiss.
Duncan was so convinced by the superiority of the Nikkors over the German lenses of that time that he purchased a set. When the Korean War broke out a few days later he used them on his Leica bodies throughout his coverage of the war.
His negatives were sent back to Life’s New York office for printing and publication. The technicians asked if he was using a plate camera and considered that the sharpness of the photographs was better than anything they had previously seen from 35mm negatives.
Other Life photojournalists started using Nikkors and some purchased Nippon Kogaku’s rangefinder Nikon Cameras which they found to be more reliable in the severe Korean winter.
Experts examined both the camera and lenses and in December the New York Times ran an article in praise of the equipment.
A myth developed that Life magazine was so impressed with the results that they ordered a special batch of black painted Nikon S bodies for their staff. The black finish made them less conspicuous on the battlefield and some had larger wind-on and rewind knobs for easier handling with gloves.
The story remained a myth for decades until diligent research by Nikon Rangefinder Guru, Robert Rotoloni, published photographs in his seminal book and journal in 2007. A very small number of contenders have emerged, some with the mythical large knobs, others without but with adequate provenance.
Body number 6108685, owned by Katsuhara Takashima was the first to be examined by Rotoloni in 1987. This had the standard rewind knobs. The lens was an all black f1.4 Nikkor 331242.
This was sold at the Leitz photographic Auction in Vienna in November 2023 and fetched €48,000.
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Delainey's exhibition, "The Air is Heavy," is on view from November 4-23, 2011. The Mezzanine Gallery, open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., is located in the Carvel State Office Building, 820 N. French Street, Wilmington.
more images of Delainey's Exhibition here.
1955, Chicago, Illinois: Dorothy Crouch, legs crossed in graceful scissors stance, arm raised, after releasing ball in preliminary match during nine-day championship tournament.
Photo by Francis Miller
© Time-Life
Dorothy June Crouch, 89 (June 6, 1931 - January 1, 2021)
Her passion in life was to bowl and was a 50 (+) year member of the National Woman's Bowling League and won many awards including a State Games of Americas gold medal during her bowling career. She would always tell you to keep that thumb at 11 o'clock and bring that arm up over your shoulder! She graced the stage of The Price Is Right show winning her prize package and will be remembered playing the piano, guitar, singing and crocheting beautiful blankets.
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Delainey's exhibition, "The Air is Heavy," is on view from November 4-23, 2011. The Mezzanine Gallery, open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., is located in the Carvel State Office Building, 820 N. French Street, Wilmington.
more images of Delainey's Exhibition here.
December 14, 1942 Life Magazine cover.
A year after the US entered WW II, the US Coast Guard makes the front cover as they stand guard. While this picture was taken, German U-boats were operating within sight of this very island. At night burning tankers could be seen offshore, and by morning oil slicks would cover the sand.
A technician inside a darken shrouded tent, prepares for an radiant cooler cover deployment test on the GOES L Weather Satellite imager instrument. LIFE Magazine. These are some images from my work with Space Systems/Loral where I worked as Sr. Photographer for 20+ years.
The images are not for reproduction, nor copy without written permission from Space Systems/Loral.
If you are interested in any image please contact Ms. Wendy Lewis at
1-650-852-5188.
The passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy resulted in wall-to-wall media coverage, over several days. When there's a huge event like this, the whole range of communication technologies comes into play, plus armies of media personnel. Those of us at home can experience the historic events almost as if we were there. And yet ... I wonder if there was any single image of the Kennedy events that will be remembered -- will be able to stand on its own merits -- sixty-some years after it was taken. That is, the way this photo does. Life photographer Ed Clark captured something timeless about the passing of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The picture is a reminder that neither vast resources nor the last word in equipment are needed to achieve great and lasting visual impact. It comes down to one guy being in the right place at the right time and being sensitive enough to catch the decisive moment.
www.nytimes.com/2000/01/28/arts/ed-clark-88-eye-behind-me...
i was beside myself when i saw these at a large yard sale! DOC MARTEN SHOES, hardly broken in... for $3!!!
THREE BUCKS!!
Admiral's new and compact remote control for their Carlton model 295 sq.inch color TV. Or, you could walk over there and tilt out a handy manual control; panel.
This short clip from a recently digitized home movie captures the end of a meeting with photographer Larry Burrows and writer Chuck Elliot on assignment for LIFE magazine to do a story on Dr. Gordon Seagrave and his hospital on a hill above Namkham, Burma (Myanmar). From left to right: Dr. Violet Poo Nya, Burrows, Elliot, and Seagrave. Dr. M. Donald Olmanson was behind the camera. Several months later, Dr. Seagrave, convinced that the LIFE article would not be published, complained in a letter that “The two Life boys came in through the back door from Bhamo after having been forbidden to come here by the Army and did land in jail and would have been kept there indefinitely except for my prestige at that time with the Army. Since Life came here not one single American has been allowed to come, not even the Ambassador. All kinds of excuses are given by the Army for not letting them come up here but undoubtedly the main reason has been Miss [Gloria] Emerson, CBS and Life. Our hospital ambulance and our hospital truck make frequent trips to Lashio and Bhamo. Other folks are shot up but our folks—knock on wood—are never shot up.”
The “Life boys” were sprung from jail and spent a couple weeks in Namkham. In a 5 December 1961 letter Dr. Olmanson wrote: “Two men from LIFE have been here the past week & will leave in another week. They are nice fellows & have been eating dinner here. Larry Burrows (an Englishman) is the photographer & Chuck Elliot (American) the writer. They are stationed in Hong Kong. Larry has done a story with Hemingway, been beaten up in the Congo and played games with King Faisal . . . They seem to like this place & may come up with a pretty good story.”
Burrows and Elliot were good house guests. They even fixed the Olmansons’ refrigerator. The LIFE article was finally published in January 1963, featuring photos taken by Larry Burrows.
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This reduction cut is of a famouse vintage photo of lindy hoppers/ swing dancers and used for the cover of Life magazine.
Yes, barkeep, I do believe I'll have another ! Partial image ( the important part) from a Schaefer Beer ad that ran 9/29/67 issue ofLIFE
Herb Snitzer's career covers over fifty years of image-making. He worked for Life, Look, The Saturday Evening Post, Fortune, Time and other national magazines as well as for the New York Times and Herald Tribune. He became Photography and Associate Editor of America's Leading Jazz Magazine, Metronome, which enabled him to meet and photograph and become friends with many of the great jazz musicians of that era; Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Count Basie, etc. ( www.herbsnitzer.com/ )