![]() Jacques Tati in New York by Joel Yale for LIFE, 1958Ĭreating James Dean heads in Hollywood – photo by Allan Grant Henri Matisse sculpting nude female figure while sitting in bed in his apartment – Photographer-Dmitri Kessel ![]() ‘Head of a Woman’ by Picasso – photo by Gjon Mili Sudanese watering crops with spherical clay pots – photo George Rodger She is remembered for portraying the witch Oenothea in the 1969 film Fellini Satyricon and being the world’s first black supermodel, and the first to grace a Vogue cover in the mid 60’sīronze sculpture – Figure of woman holding round object & vase by Pablo Picasso. Photo by Hultonįashion model Donyale Luna arching back while modeling backless see-through crocheted floor-length dress. Guests on the terrace of Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo, circa 1940. Priest sculptor – photo Alfred Eisenstaedtĭionysus and Satyr ceramic vessel, Naples Gudea, Prince of Lagash, statue dedicated to Ningizzada, Neo-Sumerian, from Telloh, ancient Girsu, c.2130 BC ‘Centaur’Bronze sculpture by Pablo PicassoĪiye African percussionists – Photo Gjon Mili XXV Venice Biennale exhibition – photo Dimitri KesselĬarved African tribal figurine-photo by Eliot ElisofonĬarving of African tribal king-Eliot Elisofon XXV Venice Biennale – photo Dimitri Kessel From where she went to Italy, and it was in Florence that she met Jinx Allen (now known as Ninalee Craig), a painter and fellow American.Ī Woman and her Dogs in Harlem – Gordon Parks In 1951, Life sent her on assignment to Israel. “American Girl in Italy” – Model Jinx Allen – ‘Staring at Statue’by Ruth Orkin “American Girl in Italy” – front of Caffè Gilli, Florence, Italy by Ruth Orkin Goddess Ioniun and young Dionysus,, god of wine. rock-cut image is still (Azov 1948) shown near the ancient pinnacle town of TantalusĪrt Deco sculpture by Joseph Reiner – photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia ‘Nude Descending’ by Gjon Mili, a photographic rendering of Marcel Duchamp’s cubist painting – Nude Descending a Staircase No. Primitive African sculpture- photo by Andreas FeiningerĪrt Objects By Paul Feeley Photographer Bob Gomel ![]() Peruvian face mask – Andreas Feininger 1954 ‘A technically perfect photo can be the most boring image in the whole world’ – Andreas Feininger ‘Models of the sculpture Night’ by artist Paul Manship, created for the 1939-1940 World’s Fair. – Eliot Elisofonīillboard depicting actress Marlene Dietrich in NY ‘The Spy In Black’ movie poster in Ismalia, Egypt and a man with a donkey and cart –įashion model Donyale Luna on the runway in SydneyĪiye African dancer and drummers – Photo Gjon MiliĪn ancient sculpture from the collection of primitive art at Pennsylvania University Museum. ![]() Ringling Brothers acrobat – photo by Nina Leen Jean Arp polisihing a sculpture in his garden in Paris Search tip – Add “source:life” to any Google image search and this will take you to only the LIFE photo archive. This foray into the LIFE archives definitely delivered. Online curation is not dissimilar to collecting in the real world where exploring archives and searching through a thrift shop has an aligned objective, to discover an object to admire, appreciate and prepare for presentation, whether it be restoration or editing. Photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gjon Mili, Margaret Bourke-White, Andreas Feininger, Gordon Parks and Dimitri Kessel are some of the wonderful LIFE photographers that I’ve presented here. There were also fascinating images from the 1939 World Fair and classic African tribal art and Peruvian artifacts. The combination of art with good quality photography is always appealing and even though LIFE only occasionally did art pictorials, there was a trove of beautiful images in the vault. I came across some Picasso pieces I had never seen before and some interesting Roma Bacchanalia reliefs and pottery. All of the photos of this era were taken with film cameras, most are monochrome and some of the images have been scanned directly off the proof sheet and have never been previously published. Google began creating the online photo archive for Life magazine in 2008 and it had slowly gathered momentum. Life’s entire library consists of roughly 10 million photos, and was one of the premier platforms for photojournalists in the 20th century. LIFE was a pioneer in publishing photographs of the documentary style and their collection is extensive. 1972, had been made available for viewing. Naturally my insatiable art curiosity was piqued when I noticed that the LIFE Magazine archives, pre.
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