J. R. Eyerman, Audience Watches Movie Wearing 3-D Spectacles, 1952. Gelatin silver print. The Howard Greenberg Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated by the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust. Photo by J.R. Eyerman. © LIFE Picture Collection.
J. R. Eyerman, Audience Watches Movie Wearing 3-D Spectacles, 1952. Gelatin silver print. The Howard Greenberg Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated by the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust. Photo by J.R. Eyerman. © LIFE Picture Collection.
Member Preview “LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography”
10:00 am–5:00 pm
See “Life Magazine and the Power of Photography” before it opens to the public.
From the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, almost all of the photographs printed for consumption by the American public appeared in illustrated magazines. Among them, Life magazine—published weekly from 1936 to 1972—was both wildly popular and visually revolutionary, with photographs arranged in groundbreaking dramatic layouts known as photo essays.
Get timed-entry special exhibition tickets starting September 14.
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