Сообщение TOP 50 legendary LIFE magazine photographs появились сначала на Old Pictures.
]]>LIFE magazine always managed to onboard the best photographers. Starting from the first issue that hit the shelves on November 23, 1936, the continuously surprised the public with their sharp and unforgettable photographs. No surprise, the LIFE magazine was the top illustrated US publication for decades.
LIFE magazine was published weekly from 1936 to 1972. Nonetheless, competitors (TV, mostly) took their readers’ share and forced the glorious publication to switch to a monthly basis. The magazine stood tall from 1978 to 2000.
But we still remember the LIFE magazine! We continue to dig through its archives and find new and new amazing photographs that deserve the fresh publication. This publication covers the LIFE magazine photographs that became an integral part of the photo history. Many of these pictures starred the 100 most important pictures in history.
Here you can check our selection of the Best LIFE magazine’s covers.
The Marlboro Man.
Photo by Leonard McCombe, 1949.
39-year-old Texas cowboy Clarence Hailey. This image became the best-known cigarette advertisement.
The Beatles in Miami
Photo by John Loengard, 1964.
The Beatles on their famous American Tour. The pool water was quite cold that day, as Ringo’s grimace tells.
Sea of Hats
Photo by: Margaret Bourke-White, 1930.
A crowd wearing hats on the streets of New York. Interestingly, Margaret Bourke-White captured this image before the LIFE publication started. It looks like magazine editors took this picture and published it later just for its artistic value.
Peek-A-Boo
Photo by Ed Clark, 1958.
John F. Kennedy plays hide-n-seek with his daughter Caroline.
Read more: Rosemary Kennedy: the tragedy of JFK’s sister lobotomy in pictures.
Lion in Winter
Photo by: John Bryson, 1959.
Hemingway near his home in Ketchum, Idaho. This picture was featured in our Hemingway and Alcohol selection.
In 20 months, Ernest Hemingway will pass away.
Liz and Monty
Photo by Peter Stackpole, 1950.
Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift take a break during filming “A Place in the Sun” at Paramount Studios.
Pied Piper of Ann Arbor
Photo by: Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1950.
A drummer from the University of Michigan marches with children. See more beautiful photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Parting the Sea in Salt Lake City
Photo by J.R. Eyerman, 1958.
The auto movie theater in the capital of Utah, Salt Lake City. Moses, in front of the parting Red Sea in the film “The Ten Commandments.”
The sand of Iwo Jima
Photo by: W. Eugene Smith, 1945.
American Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the spring of 1945. See more amazing WW2 photography by Eugene Smith.
Picasso and Centaur
Author of the photo: Gjon Mili, 1949.
Ephemeral drawing in the air.
Reaching Out
Photo by Larry Burrows, 1966.
Marines during the Vietnam War. The black soldier reaches out to his wounded, white comrade.
Meeting peace With fire hoses.
Photo by: Charles Moore, 1963.
Fire hoses were used to disperse a peaceful anti-segregation rally in Birmingham, Alabama.
Marlene Dietrich
Photo by: Milton Greene, 1952.
Littlest Survivor
Photo by W. Eugene Smith, 1943.
Another WW2 masterpiece of Eugene Smith. During World War II, hundreds of Japanese were besieged on Saipan’s island and committed mass suicide to avoid Americans’ surrender. When American Marines examined the island, they found a barely alive child in one of the caves. Here’s a story behind this stunning photograph.
Liberation of Buchenwald
Photo by: Margaret Bourke-White, 1945.
Jumping Royals
Photo by Philippe Halsman, 1959.
Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
Jet Age Man
Photo by Ralph Morse, 1954.
Measurement of the pilot’s anthropological data with special lighting from alternating bands of light and shadow of various thicknesses. That was the key ingredient for the new flight helmet design by the US Air Force.
Jack and Bobby
Photo by Hank Walker, 1960.
John F. Kennedy (still a Senator) with his brother Robert at a hotel during the Democratic convention in Los Angeles.
Into the Light
Photo by: William Eugene Smith, 1946.
Ingenue Audrey
Photo by: Mark Shaw, 1954.
25-year-old star Audrey Hepburn while filming Roman Holiday.
Gunhild Larking
Photo by George Silk, 1956.
Swedish high jumper Gunhild Larking at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.
Goin’ Home
Officer Graham Jackson plays the song “Goin ‘Home” at President Roosevelt’s April 12, 1945 funeral.
Freedom Riders
Photo by Paul Schutzer, 1961.
“Riders of Freedom” called the joint bus trips of black and white activists who protested against the violation of black people’s rights in the southern states of the United States. In 1961, activists rented buses and traveled around the southern states. No surprise, they were repeatedly attacked and arrested by southern whites. During a trip from Montgomery, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi, National Guard soldiers were assigned to protect the riders.
Face of Death
Photo by: Ralph Morse, 1943.
The head of a Japanese soldier on a tank.
Eyes of Hate
Photo by: Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1933.
The moment when Goebbels (sitting) found that his photographer was a Jew and he stopped smiling. The full story behind Eyes of hate pictures.
Dennis Stock
Photo by Andreas Feininger, 1951.
Portrait of the photographer Dennis Stock.
Dali Atomicus
Photo by Philippe Halsman, 1948.
Six hours and 28 throws (water, chair, and three cats). According to the photographer, he and his assistants were wet, dirty, and completely exhausted when the shot was successful. The Dali Atomicus is among the 100 most important pictures in history.
Read more: All Pulitzer Prize photos (1942-1967)
Country Doctor
Photo by W. Eugene Smith, 1948.
Rural doctor Ernest Ceriani, the only doctor in the 1200 square miles area. In this photo, Eugene Smith captured a moment after a botched cesarean section that killed a mother and child due to complications. See more pictures and a full story behind the Country Doctor photo.
Charlie Chaplin
Photo by W. Eugene Smith, 1952.
Charlie Chaplin, 63.
Center of Attention
Photo by: Leonard McCombe, 1956.
Both Sides Now
Photo by: John Shearer, 1971.
Muhammad Ali before his fight with Joe Fraser in March 1971. Ali loved to tease opponents. Before the fight with Fraser, he questioned the latter’s masculinity, intellectual abilities, and even his “black skin”.
Before the Wedding
Photo by: Michael Rougier, 1962.
Before Camelot, a Visit to West Virginia
Photo by Hank Walker, 1960.
John F. Kennedy speaks during the election campaign in an American town.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn Breathes Free
Photo by Harry Benson.
Free-breathing. Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Vermont.
Airplane Over Manhattan.
Photo by: Margaret Bourke-White, 1939.
Agony
Photo by: Ralph Morse, 1944.
Army medic George Lott, badly wounded in both arms.
A Wolf’s Lonely Leap
Photo by Jim Brandenburg, 1986.
The polar wolf fights for survival in northern Canada.
A Leopard’s Kill
Photo by: John Dominis, 1966.
Leopard with a victim.
A Child Is Born
Photo by: Lennart Nilsson, 1965.
The first-ever picture of a baby in the womb.
A Boy’s Escape
Photo by: Ralph Crane, 1947.
This staged photo depicts a boy escaping from an orphanage.
3D Movie Audience
Photo by: J.R. Eyerman, 1952.
The first full-length stereo film Bwana Devil.
Winston Churchill
Author photo: Yousuf Karsh, 1941.
Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1940-1945 and 1951-1955. Politician, military man, journalist, writer, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
See more: Winston Churchill as an artist and his other leisure pictures.
Three Americans
Photo by: George Strock, 1943.
American soldiers were killed in battle with the Japanese on a beach in New Guinea. The first shot of dead American soldiers on the battlefield during World War II.
The Puppet Show
Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1963.
At a puppet show in a Parisian park. The moment of the killing of the serpent by Saint George.
The Longest Day
Photo by Robert Capa, 1944.
The landing of the American army on Omaha Beach in Normandy on June 6, 1944. It was also depicted in the film “Saving Private Ryan” by Steven Spielberg.
The Kiss
Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945.
One of the most famous photographs. Kiss of a sailor and a nurse after the end of the war.
The story ‘V-J Day in Times Square’ by Alfred Eisenstaedt
The Great Soul
Photo by: Margaret Bourke-White, 1946.
Mahatma Gandhi, next to his spinning wheel, symbolizes the non-violent movement for Indian independence from Britain.
The American Way
Photo by: Margaret Bourke-White, 1937.
Food queue during the Great Depression with a poster reading, “There is way like the American way.”
The story of the American way photo by Margarett Bourke-White
Steve McQueen
Photo by: John Dominis, 1963.
Actor Steve McQueen, who starred in The Magnificent Seven.
Sophia Loren
Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1966.
Sophia Loren, in the movie “Italian Marriage.” When this candid snapshot took the cover of LIFE, many criticized the magazine for “going into pornography.” One reader wrote, “Thank God the postman comes at noon when my kids are at school.”
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Somehow this photo of former-model Lee Miller in Hitler’s bathroom is one of the best-known WW2 photography. Its story is noteworthy, though. Photographers Lee Miller and David Sherman worked together during WWII. Miller shot for Vogue, Sherman shot for LIFE. They participated in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The very next day, photographers entered Munich together with the 45th American division. Precisely speaking, Lee Miller didn’t shower in the secondary apartment of Adolf Hitler, which he used during his trips to Bavaria.
“Lee and I found an elderly gentleman who barely spoke English, gave him a box of cigarettes, and said, ‘Show us Munich,’” Sherman recalled in a 1993 interview. “He showed us around Hitler’s house, and I photographed Lee washing in Hitler’s bathroom.”
Lee Miller moved from the apartment of Hitler to the mansion of Eva Braun
Miller and Sherman lived in the apartment of Adolf Hitler for several days. After that, they even squatted in the house of Eva Braun, which was located nearby.
The photo of Lee Miller taking a bath in the Fuhrer’s apartment caused a flurry of indignation. Many considered the photographers’ behavior unethical. Lee Miller’s son, Anthony Penrose, commenting on the image, said: “Her boots covered in Dachau mud are on the floor are. She says she is a winner. But what she didn’t know was that a few hours later in Berlin, Hitler and Eva Braun would kill themselves in a bunker. ”
Many people noticed that Hitler decorated the bathroom with his own portrait and a classic statue of a woman. The New York Times described the photograph as “A woman caught between horror and beauty.” However, some researchers have interpreted the image more deeply, arguing that there is no single accidental detail in it. The pollution of Hitler’s bathroom with Dachau dust was a deliberate act. The Sherman bathing photographs in the same bath, taken by Lee Miller, are also symbolic since the photographer was a Jew.
Read more: Raising a Flag over the Reichstag by Yevgeniy Khaldei,1945
Commenting on the photos, Miller said she was trying to wash off the Dachau scents.
David Sherman, a jew, tried Hitler’s bathroom too
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These pictures are the only aftermath documentary taken on the day of the Hiroshima bombing. Japanese photojournalist Yoshito Matsushige was lucky twice on August 6, 1945. He survived the Hiroshima bombing while staying at his own home, kept his camera, and took some fantastic pictures of the explosion aftermath.
When the bomb detonated, Matsushige was at his home, less than three kilometers from ground zero.
“I had breakfast and was about to go to the office when it happened. There was a flash, and then I felt a kind of thunderstrike. I didn’t hear any sounds; the world around me turned bright white. I was momentarily blinded as if the light of magnesium was burning right in front of my eyes. An explosion followed immediately. I was not dressed, and the blast was so intense that I felt like hundreds of needles pierced me at the same time. “
The injured policeman issues a certificate for a rice ration. People had nothing to eat after the explosion.
The horrors of the detonation aftermath
After that, Matsushige took his camera and headed to the Hiroshima downtown to take pictures of the bombing aftermath. He took two 24-frame photographic films and wandered around the ruined city for several hours.
Yoshito Matsushige took only seven pictures on that explosion day. The aftermath scenes were too horrible.
“I was also a victim of that detonation,” Matsushige later said, “but I had minor injuries from glass fragments while these people were dying. It was such a brutal sight that I could not bring myself to press the shutter button. My tears watered the viewfinder. I felt that everyone was looking at me in anger: “He is taking pictures of us and not giving any help.”
“Sometimes, I think I should have mustered up the courage to take more photos,” Matsushige later said. “I couldn’t keep taking pictures that day. It was too heartbreaking. “
Yoshito Matsushige took only seven pictures of the Hiroshima bombing aftermath. He lost two of them while working with negatives.
Saving pictures in a post-explosion Hiroshima
Detonation destroyed the darkroom, and Matsushige worked with the negatives outside at night. He washed them in a stream near his house and dried them on a tree branch. Only five of his seven photographs have survived. A few weeks after the explosion, the US military confiscated Japanese newspapers and newsreels after the explosion, but Yoshito Matsushige hid the negatives.
Three photos were taken at the Miyuki Bridge. The first two shots show police spilling oil on the lubricate schoolchildren’s burns. The pictures were taken 2.3 km from the epicenter of the explosion, between 11.00 and 11.30 am. Matsushige will return here later to take another snapshot of the wounded policeman signing the certificates for emergency rice rations.
Detonation aftermath from the window of the photographer’s house
Photographer took two more shots of the aftermath near his house in Hiroshima. In these photos, his wife Sumie, wearing a helmet to protect her from radiation, is trying to clean up a barbershop that belonged to their family. He took a second shot from the window of the house.
Photos went public in 1952 when the LIFE magazine printed them. The title was “When the Hiroshima atomic bomb detonated: aftermath uncensored.”
Yoshito Matsushige died in 2005 at the age of 92.
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing put an end to WW2 in the Pacific Region. The war, which was started by Japan, finally ended.
Read more: 64 Amazing photos by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Destroyed barbershop.
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The name of this photo is Reindeer, called after the German operation during the WW2. This offensive aimed to capture Petsamo (an area in Finland on the border with the Soviet Union) to seize nickel mines. The Reindeer operation started on June 22, 1941, and proceeded without incident. On June 29, the German plan changed, and the whole operation was renamed to ‘Platinum Fox.’ The new goal was the city of Murmansk. The Soviet Photojournalist Yevgeny Khaldey was covering the Russian defense activities. It was a time when he made this striking shot in which the beast’s natural beauty confronts the killing machines.
The Reindeer is not the only famous photo that Yevgeny Khaldey took. The best-known picture is, of course, the Flag over the Reichstag, 1945. The ‘Flag’ picture hit the Top 100 most important photos in history.
Oldpics also published a story behind another amazing photo by Yevgeny Khaldey: The Nazi family in Vienna, 1945.
How the reindeer appeared in the combat operation photo
But now, let’s get back to the Reindeer operation photo. In his works, Yevgeny Khaldei liked to combine everyday life and war. He photographed a sunbathing couple next to a destroyed building, the head of the traffic control service next to the sign of German cities in Russian, etc. He used a similar technique with the Reindeer photo. True, the photo with the reindeer was not entirely documentary. The book “Witness to History: Photos by Yevgeny Khaldei” tells about this shot. During the bombardment, the deer (Russian called it Yasha afterward) approached soldiers. The shell-shocked animal did not want to be left alone. Khaldei took a picture, but it turned out not as spectacular as the correspondent expected. Through multiple exposures, Khaldei added British Hawker Hurricane fighters and an exploding bomb to the shot.
The Reindeer operation did not bring success to the German-Finnish army. Neither the Germans nor the Finns reached the Murmansk railway, nor did they seize the Soviet fleet’s base in the Far North. In this sector of the war, the front stabilized until 1942.
Check our publications of the best Soviet WW2 photography:
Outstanding Soviet WW2 pictures (Part I: Max Alpert)
Amazing Soviet WWII pictures (Part 2: Dmitri Baltermants)
Outstanding WW2 pictures (Part3: Emmanuil Evzerikhin)
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American photographer Margaret Bourke-White took her legendary Mahatma Gandhi and spinning wheel photo in 1946. It became a symbol of the “nonviolent resistance” ideology. Later it turned out that the spinning wheel was a perfect visual component to show the lifestyle and the mindset of Gandhi.
Margaret Bourke-White was a fearless photographer. She became the first female military journalist and took pictures that are sometimes horrifying with the brutality of the events they depict. But at the same time, she was able to capture moments of peace and tranquility. Her photograph of “Gandhi and His Spinning Wheel” is a perfect illustration of her skill.
This Mahatma Gandhi photo is among the 100 most important pictures in history
The harsh time for India
1946 is a turbulent time for India. The former British colony split into independent states – Pakistan and the Indian Union. Numerous bloody clashes between Hindus and Muslims will follow, more than 500 thousand people will die. Mahatma Gandhi, who believed in the senselessness of violence, was very upset by the country’s situation. But in 1946, the parties still hoped for a more peaceful settlement of the conflict. During this time, Margaret Burke-White was on assignment for the editorial staff of LIFE magazine in India. She was working on an article ultimately titled “Leaders of India” issued on May 27, 1946.
The photographer took hundreds of pictures, including many photographs of Gandhi himself: with his family, with a spinning wheel, at prayer. A dozen pictures of the Leaders of India hit the pages of the magazine. But there was no famous Gandhi photo among them.
This picture hit the paper in June 1946, as a small image on top of an article dedicated to Gandhi’s charm, which the editorial board called “natural medicine” for the sick.
Why is the spinning wheel a symbol of Gandhi
The ‘Gandhi spinning wheel’ photograph became truly famous after the assassination of Gandhi in January 1948. LIFE magazine released an article entitled “India Lost Its Great Soul.” A shot of Gandhi with a spinning wheel took half a page over the text. The photograph served as a moving visual eulogy for this man and his ideals.
Margaret Bourke-White noted the significance of the simple spinning wheel in the photograph for Mahatma Gandhi. She wrote: “Gandhi spins every day for an hour, usually starting at 4 a.m. All members of his ashram must spin too. He and his followers encourage everyone to spin”. They even told Margaret Bourke-White to put aside the camera to spin … When she noticed that photography and spinning are both crafts, they replied seriously: “Spinning is the greater of two.” Spinning rises to the heights of the almost religious Gandhi and his followers.
The spinning wheel is almost like an icon to them. Spinning is a medicine for them, and they talk about it in terms of high poetry. “
In Burke-White’s most famous portrait of Gandhi, a note to the LIFE editors reads: “Gandhi is reading clippings — in the foreground is the spinning wheel he has just stopped using. It would be impossible to exaggerate the reverence with which Gandhi’s personal spinning wheel is kept in the ashram.”
Read more: The story of American way photo by Margarett Bourke-White
Gandhi reading religious texts.
Mahatma Gandhi stretching during the reading
Gandhi and his follower
Another angle of the famous spinning wheel photo
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Winston Churchill was a modest artist. He called his paintings daub.
Everybody remembers Winston Churchill as an iron prime-minister from the picture of Yusuf Karsh. This photo is undoubtfully the best-known Prime minister’s image. We also remember him holding a Tommy gun and inspiring British soldiers to defend their homeland.
But we have some relaxed photos of Winston Churchill too. Oldpics selected several noteworthy images showing an unexpected talent of the legendary politician: the painting. Yes, Sir Winston Churchill was an artist too!
Editors asked their photographers to make a portrait of a retired politician at home. In those pictures, the Winston Churchill looked completely different: a sedate landowner, an enthusiastic artist, an animal lover.
Churchill took up a hobby of painting in 1915, at the age of 41. He was a passionate artist until the end of his life. “If I didn’t paint, I would not be able to live. I could not bear the stress, ”he said. During his life, he created more than 500 paintings.
See more: Eyes of hate: story behind iconic photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
“When I get to heaven, I intend to spend a substantial portion of the first million years drawing, and so get to the bottom of things.”
In his studio in Kent
Winston Churchill, an artist, 1939
Churchill’s wife supported her husband’s painting hobby. However, Winston Churchill didn’t make any of her portraits.
Spending free time, 1939
Winston Churchill knew how to spend his time in style, 1939
While painting in France, 1949
Frank Scherchel photographs Winston Churchill painting, 1949
Winston Churchill and his poodle Rufus.
Winston Churchill and his thoroughbred four-month-old mare, whom he called Darling Chartwell, 1950.
Working on a memoir.
Winston Churchill and his poodle Rufus. Chartwell estate in Kent, 1947.
In the office. Chartwell, 1949.
Churchill and cigars. Chartwell Estate, 1947.
Black Swans are a gift to Churchill from Western Australia (the bird is a state symbol). Chartwell, 1950.
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Oldpics continues to be of the view that almost all pictures from LIFE Magazine covers are iconic. Here’s why we selected photos for this publication with special attention. After all, it’s not an easy task to choose just 50 photos from the endless archive (10B of images inside of it) and numerous amazing LIFE magazine covers.
Why LIFE magazine covers were so important
The stunning covers were one of the reasons why LIFE magazine gained its popularity. Excellent cover images emphasized the unique design and overall visual approach of this publication. Beautifully illustrated photographs accompanied any events, news, magazine reviews. LIFE’s illustrations were close to perfect, and they dominated the public imagination in the pre- and early TV era. Can you imagine that watching and reading LIFE was much more fun for Americans than watching television news in the 1940s? The best masters contributed their photographs to the magazine. Then editors selected the best of them for the LIFE magazine covers.
Read more: 100 most important pictures in history
Alfred Hitchcock
Audrey Hepburn posed at home for the 1953 LIFE magazine cover.
Bill Murray
Cover of LIFE 1945. The magazine actively covered the events of the war. This photo of Eugene Smith is perhaps one of the most heartbreaking images of WWII.
John and Jacqueline Kennedy resting on a yacht, 1953 cover
Artists behind LIFE magazine covers
All photographers’ names in this list are legends for Oldpics. Leonard McCombe, J.R. Eyerman, John Bryson, W. Eugene Smith, Lennart Nilsson, Ralph Morse, Margaret Bourke-White, Ed Clark, Ralph Morse, Leonard McCombe, Philippe Halsman, Mark Shaw, Alfred Eisenstaedt, and many others. We’ve dedicated a separate publication at Oldpics to some of the most prominent photographers from this list. But all of them are genius, and we promise to cover their photography (both the best images and the stories behind the selected ones) in the future.
LIFE magazine, April 8, 1946, is dedicated to the circus.
Marilyn Monroe, 1959
Marlon Brando, 1972
Neil Armstrong
Pablo Picasso
Sunbathing girls in bikinis on the cover of LIFE 1956.
Read more: Idealized American lifestyle of the 1950s by Nina Leen
The Beatles on their first US tour. Cover of LIFE, 1964.
The Jackson Family, 1971
USA Water Polo Team, 1996.
Victorious Yank, 1945
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These stunning vintage Las Vegas pictures shed light on the pre- and an early neon era of the city.
Nowadays, Las Vegas is the world’s capital of entertainment, but it was a bit different back in vintage days. But no one could guess that the city will develop this way on the day of its foundation in 1905. It was a modest settlement amidst a rocky desert, and its name “Las Vegas,” which ironically means “fertile valleys” in Spanish. It was just an important railway junction for a long time, where trains were refueled, going mainly from west to east and back.
Our vintage pictures set covers the whole history of Las Vegas, from the foundation decade to the years when the city became a world-known attraction.
Time to gamble!
The gambling became legal in the state of Nevada in 1931. At the same time, the construction of the Hoover Dam began 40 kilometers away from Las Vegas. These two factors changed the fate of the city dramatically. After WWII, lavishly decorated hotels, gambling establishments, and entertainment became synonymous with Las Vegas. The Golden Gate Hotel and Casino is the oldest continuously operating hotel and casino in Las Vegas. It is located in the city center on Fremont Street, opened in 1906 as the Nevada Hotel.
Check out vintage photo sets from the different cities in our special section.
Vintage Las Vegas, 1906
Downtown Las Vegas in 1942
Swimmers at the pool in a Las Vegas hotel watch a cloud from a nuclear explosion at a testing site 120 km from the hotel, 1953
The glow from a nuclear explosion at a proving ground caught the attention of Las Vegas casino workers, March 1953
Vintage pictures of nuclear mushrooms
Nuclear mushrooms were another entertainment that attracted tourists to Las Vegas in the 1950s. The test site was not so far away from the city, and people could observe the most significant nuclear explosions out of a total of 928 that were made. The first one was in January 1951.
“The nuclear explosion in Nevada this morning (February 2, 1951) is reputedly by far-flung observers the most violent of the four this week. It shook Las Vegas from 64 to 112 kilometers away like an earthquake. Buildings swayed, shop windows shattered. The flash, first white, then orange and finally yellow, was seen from the farthest distance compared to any other that had previously occurred”.
Vintage Las Vegas Strip. A 1940s photo shows a gas station at the Last Frontier Hotel, the second hotel on the Strip.
Las Vegas Strip, 1968.
Vintage photos of the Fremont Street, Las Vegas, July 1962.
Strip, Las Vegas, 1955
Nevada Club, 1958
Neon lights shaped the city development
Las Vegas, 1959
The Sin City in 1957
Las Vegas postcard
Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1960
Golden Nugget in 1962
Downtown, 1958
Frank Sinatra playing baccarat at the Sands Casino, Las Vegas, November 1959.
Read more: Frank Sinatra’s Arrest, New Jersey, 1938
Hunter S. Thompson and Dr. Gonzo at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas in 1971.
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Oldpics continues to publish the most amazing WW2 pictures made by the Soviet photographers. It’s the third volume of this series.
Here you can check previous publications:
Outstanding Soviet WW2 pictures (Part I: Max Alpert)
Outstanding Soviet WWII pictures (Part 2: Dmitri Baltermants)
Now let’s take a look at WW2 pictures of Emmanuil Evzerikhin. He has some iconic world-famous photography in his portfolio too. We mean his photo of a fountain with dancing figures of children in the middle of ruined Stalingrad. This image became another gloomy symbol of WW2. Yevzerikhin’s scenes are generally atypical. Yes, there are many masterful combat photographs, but when selecting the brightest ones, you will pay attention to their symbolism, meaningfulness, whether it’s the cemetery of Hitler’s soldiers in liberated Stalingrad or the aircraft resembling a huge corn cob.
The road to combat photography
There was a lack of photo reporters in the USSR when WW2 broke out. Here’s how TASS (Russian version of AP) invited Emmanuil Evzerikhin to shoot war chronicles for them. He went through the entire war, filming many significant historical events. During the Battle of Stalingrad, Emmanuil became a real photo poet, as photo colleagues called him.
The Stalingrad series of photographs by Evzerikhin became the master’s visiting card; simple and expressive scenes grabbed editors’ attention and hit the print uncountable times.
Evzerikhin captured the real, hungry, and destroyed the city of Stalingrad and its people. Panoramas of a burning city with “blinded” windows of houses; the frightening emptiness of extinct streets; Pictures of captured Germans are with despair in their eyes. Those WW2 pictures make you empathize with people who have become victims of the war. Frozen, miserable, wrapped in rags, and lined up in uneven ranks. The soldiers wander through the white snow to nowhere, their faces and figures leave only the feeling of the monstrosity of any war.
Emmanuil Evzerikhin participated in the Battle of Konigsberg, the liberation of Minsk. He filmed the battles of the cities of Poland and Czechoslovakia, including the bloody Prague operation.
Read more: 100 most important pictures in history
Fountain Children’s round dance in Stalingrad after the raid of German aircraft, 1943
Women camouflage the Soviet Yak-1 fighter at the airfield (1941)
Boeing factory disguised during WWII in pictures
The StuG III assault gun knocked out in Konigsberg and the killed German soldier. Germany (1945)
The crew of the BA-10 armored car with a shepherd
Soviet collection point for captured bicycles in the city of Bischofsburg. Poland (1944)
Red Army soldiers march at the Favoritenstrasse in Vienna (1945)
Read more: Vienna in 1945: Noteworthy pictures from soviet archives
People of Rostov-on-Don in the courtyard of the prison identify relatives killed by the German army (1943)
Battery of Soviet 152-mm D-1 howitzers firing at German troops in Belarus (1944)
German cemetery in a village near Stalingrad (1942)
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Alfred Eisenstaedt photos are an integral part of the history of photojournalism. He captured informal portraits of kings, dictators, scientists, athletes, and movie stars and sensitively portrayed ordinary people in everyday situations. Alfred Eisenstadt said that his goal was “to find and capture the moment of the story.”
Oldpics has covered the ‘V-J Day,’ which is one of the most remarkable photos by Alfred Eisenstadt. It also hit the list of Top 100 most important photos in history. In this publication, we’ll show you his most brilliant photos.
Buttons and cameras
Alfred Eisenstaedt was born in 1898 in the city of Dirschau (then Eastern Germany, now it’s Tczew in Poland). He died at 96 and devoted more than 70 to photography. Eisenstaedt studied at the University of Berlin, joined the German Army during WWI. After the war, he sold buttons and belts in Berlin and started to freelance as a photojournalist. In 1929, he received his first photo assignment. It was the beginning of a professional career as a photojournalist: he was filming the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm.
Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1930s
A new ‘LIFE’ in the US
From 1929 to 1935, Eisenstadt was a staff photojournalist for the Pacific and Atlantic agency, then a part of the Associated Press. While dodging the horrors of the jew-life in Nazi Germany, he emigrated to the United States in 1935. Alfred Eisenstaedt continued his photo career in New York, working for Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Town and Country, and other publications. In 1936, Henry Luce hired him as one of four photographers for LIFE magazine (the other three cameramen were Margaret Burke-White, Peter Stackpole, and Thomas McAvoy). Eisenstaedt stayed with this legendary magazine for the next four decades. His photographs have appeared on the LIFE magazine covers 90 times.
Alfred Eisenstaedt was among those Europeans who pioneered using the 35mm camera in photojournalism on American publications after WWI. He was also an early advocate of natural light photography. When photographing famous people, he tried to create a relaxed atmosphere to capture natural postures and expressions: “Don’t take me too seriously with my small camera,” Eisenstaedt said. – I’m here not as a photographer. I came as a friend. “
Agricultural school for Prussian coachmen trained to hold the reins. Neudeck, East Prussia, 1932.
Secret trick of Alfred Eisenstaedt
Creating a relaxed environment was not always easy. Let’s take a photoshoot with Ernest Hemingway in his boat in 1952. While establishing those special links between genius and the photographer, the writer tore his shirt in a rage and threatened to throw Alfred Eisenstaedt overboard. The photographer recalled that shooting in Cuba in 1952 more than once. “Hemingway nearly killed me,” the photographer said.
Unlike many photojournalists of the post-war period, Alfred Eisenstadt didn’t commit to any particular type of events or geographic area. He was a generalist. And he liked to capture people and their emotions than the news. Editors appreciated his eagle eye and his talent to take good photographs of any situation or event. Eisenstadt’s skill set a perfect composition that turned his photos into the era’s memorable documents in historical and aesthetic contexts.
Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels at the 1933 League of Nations conference in Geneva. He had just found out that the photographer was Jewish and stopped smiling. This photo was one of the first shots of Alfred Eisenstadt that appeared on the cover of the LIFE magazine.
Eyes of hate: story behind iconic photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Ballerinas with a ballet master at a rehearsal at the Paris Opera. Paris, France, 1932.
V-J Day, 1945
The story ‘V-J Day in Times Square’ by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Senior waiter René Breguet from the Grand Hotel serving ice skating cocktails. The commune of St. Moritz in Switzerland, 1932.
Young monks walk across the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Italy, 1935.
Writer William Somerset Maugham, South Carolina, USA, 1942.
Writer Ernest Hemingway. Havana, Cuba, 1952.
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Winston Churchill, Chartwell, Kent, England, 1951.
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Trees in the snow, St. Moritz, 1947.
The room where Beethoven was born. Bonn, Germany, 1979.
The room where Beethoven was born. Bonn, Germany, 1979.
The hull of the German airship Graf Zeppelin renovated over the South Atlantic, 1933.
Street musicians near Rue Saint-Denis in Paris, 1932.
Sophia Loren, Rome, Italy, 1961.
Sophia Loren behind the scenes of the ‘Italian Marriage,’ Rome, Italy, 1964.
Singer Jane Foreman at NBC 4H Studios in New York, 1937.
Salvador Dali with his wife at a New Year’s party in New York, January 1956.
Runners at the Italian Forum, Rome, 1934.
Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Robert Oppenheimer, discusses the theory of matter in terms of space with Albert Einstein in Princeton, New Jersey, 1947.
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Professional hunter Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1935.
President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration ball at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC January 20, 1961.
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Nursing students at Roosevelt Hospital, New York, 1938.
Nightclub Salambo in West Berlin, Germany, 1979.
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Mortar squad of the German army in the Spandau district, Berlin, 1934.
Mom and child in Hiroshima, Japan, December 1945.
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Model looking into a large mirror, Paris, France, 1932.
Martin Buber, a Jewish existential philosopher, and theorist of Zionism. Jerusalem, Israel, 1953.
Marlene Dietrich, Berlin, 1929.
Marilyn Monroe, 1953.
Marilyn Monroe on the patio at her home in 1953.
Looks into the mouth of a big fish that dad just caught. Florida, USA, 1956.
Location of the bunker where Hitler died. View from Otto Grotewohl Street in East Berlin, 1979.
Hanomag car, Wolfgangsee, Salzburg, Austria, 1932.
Hedy Lamarr, 1938
Horse tram and steamer in the harbor of Izmir, Turkey, 1934.
Ice bar at the Palace Hotel ice rink in St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1947.
Leela Tiffany begging in front of Carnegie Hall in New York, 1960.
George Bernard Shaw on his balcony in London, England, 1931.
Children in the puppet theater at the moment when a bad dragon is killed. Tuileries Garden, Paris, 1963.
Dance school in Berlin, 1931.
City mayor and chief of justice, presiding over the court session. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1935.
Chimney sweep in Hamburg, Germany, 1979.
Break at the Chinese Mission School in San Francisco, California, 1936.
Bertrand Russell, London, England, 1951.
Ballet School in Berlin, 1931.
Ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov in New York, 1979.
Ballerinas in the rehearsal room of the George Balanchine Ballet School, 1936.
Athletics coaches on Hiddensee Island, west of Rügen Island, in the Baltic Sea, 1931.
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Albert Einstein at Princeton, 1948.
An Italian officer sleds in Sestriere, Italian Alps, 1934.
An optical illusion building in the Peseldorf district, Hamburg, Germany, 1979.
Army officer of the Mussolini army during the manicure procedure in Milan, Italy, 1934.
A young Englishman looks at himself in the mirror of the Grand Hotel in St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1932.
A wicker rocking chair displayed at a flea market in Paris, 1963.
A prostitute on the rue Saint-Denis in Paris, 1932.
A New Yorker on vacation in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, 1940.
A man tries to sell a doll on the rue Saint-Denis, Paris, Ile-de-France, France, 1931.
A girl at the Weissensee Jewish cemetery in East Berlin, 1979.
A gigantic oak tree in Tisbury, Massachusetts, USA, 1968.
A fresco in the Dominican monastery of San Marco called Providence. Giovanni Antonio Sogliani created it in 1536. Italy, Florence, 1935.
Perseus, by the Italian sculptor Benvenuto Cellini holds the severed head of a jellyfish. Against the background, a copy of Michelangelo’s David, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy, 1935.
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