72 Stunning Examples of Bokeh Photography. LIFE Magazine's Best Pictures: Iconic Images by the 20th Century's Greatest Photographers, 1936-1972. Over several decades spanning the heart of the 20th century, one American magazine ― calling itself, plainly and boldly, LIFE ― published an astonishing number of the most memorable photographs ever made.
Driven by the certainty that the art of photojournalism could tell stories and move people in ways that traditional reporting simply could not, LIFE pursued a grand vision, articulated by the magazine’s co-founder, Henry Luce, that not only acknowledged the primacy of the picture, but enshrined it. “To see life,” Luce wrote in a now-famous 1936 mission statement, delineating both his new venture’s workmanlike method and its lofty aims. “To see the world; to eyewitness great events … to see strange things … to see and be amazed.” The roster of talent, meanwhile, associated with Luce’s audacious publishing gamble is, in a word, staggering: W.
Eugène Atget. American Civil War. II World War. Guerra Civil Española. Revolución Rusa. Revista Life.