C4-Wednesday, June 25, 1980 - North Shore News

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‘Life’ photos

on display

The first Canadian
showing of ‘Life: The First
Decade’, an. exhibition of
superb vintage photographs
taken during 1936-1945 will
be the featured exhibition at
Presentation House from
July 10 to August 24.

The photo files of Life
magazine are the greatest
visual history archive
existing in the world today.
The magazine's first decade
was an extraordinary period
of broad economic and
social change, political
turmoil abroad, and a war
that would involve the world
in a life and death struggle.
Most of the two hundred
vintage prints in this
exhibition were published in
the magazine.

They are not only a
remarkable record and a
reminder of those years but

are also works of art. Most,

were shot by hardworking
journalists who were trying
to record the world around
them in order to fill the
pages of Life. The weekly
magazine had an enormous
appetite for good
photographs. Since the
editors were journalists, they
wanted pictures that
reported on the news, on
people and cvents, on life
itself. That is why there is so
much realism in this
exhibition and = such
evocation of the flavour and
character of that time.

Each week Life sent out
hundreds of prints to be
engraved and published
When they were returned to
the New York office they
might casily have been
discarded on the familiar
theory that nothing ts older
than last week's news
Fortunately the cditors
decided they just might want
to publish some of the
pictures again some day,
ether in Life or in one of the
company's other
publications So they werc
hopt and what began as a

LEADERS IN FINE

small batch of pictures with
dubious value is today a
huge, important and im-
mensely useful collection of
more than 18 million images,
including prints, negatives
and colour transparencies.

Not only do Time Inc.
magazines and books use it
on a daily basis, but so do
many interested outside
authors, scholars, publishers
and businesses. Many of the
photographs. are im-
mediately recognizable, as
they have come to symbolize
particular moments in
history. Others, perhaps
equally representative of the
era, have never been
published before.

The excellence of the
collection and indeed its
very survival must be
credited primarily to one
person. Doris O'Neil first
came to work in the Picture
Collection at Life Magazine
30 years ago and collection
through the years has made
it an active and invaluable
resource. The selection of
vintage prints for ‘Life The
First Decade’ was made by

Dons O'Neil and Robert
Littman. Director of Grey
Art Gallery, New York.
Many egrcat photographic
mames are represented

From among Life — staff
photographers are such

names as Margaret Bourke
White, Alfred Ersenstacdt,
Carl Mydans and W. Eugene
Smith. Among those who
were never on the staff but
how took pictures for the
magazine are Edward
Weston, Cecil Beaton, Ansel
Adams and many others In
vicw of the nmch diversity of
this selection, it is interesting
to reahze Chat these pictures
make up rougly 1/90,000 of
the Life picture collection It
is therefore a very tiny Up of
the iceberg, but gencrally
agreed to be an caceptional
up Dons O'Ne’d will be

present al the opening on
July 10

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