LIFE ARCHIVES
A selection of works by the photographers who have made the history of LIFE magazine. Published between 1883 and 1936 as a humorous magazine that dealt with topics of general interest, in 1936 the founder of Time magazine, Henry Luce, took the reins and transformed it into a magazine focused mainly on photo journalism. Life was published as a weekly until 1972, as a "special" without a fixed frequency until 1978, as a monthly from 1978 to 2000 and as a weekly supplement from 2004 to 2007. Margaret Bourke-White, Lisa Larsen, Nina Leen, John Loengard, Paul Schutzer, Bill Ray, are some of the big names of which you can buy prints from the original negatives kept in the magazine's archive. "The photographers who worked for LIFE captured the world around them and paid particular attention to the people who lived there and their activities. Many of our photos remain etched in the memory and become true classics. Why? I think because they retain the ability to surprise . The written word quickly becomes obsolete: old news is an oxymoron. Instead old photographs continue to draw our attention and I think this is precisely the watershed between the ambitions of photographers and journalists "(John Loengard).
