edited by Doris C. O'Neil
Published in conjunction with a touring exhibition of photographs from the weekly LIFE, this book demonstrates most vividly why the magazine had such a powerful impact on its readers. Very few of the 200 pictures selected are anything less than absorbing. There are such portraits as J.R. Eyerman's Howard Hughes, Philippe Halsman's Winston Churchill and Martha Holmes' Jackson Pollock. There is Gjon Mili's shot of Picasso tracing a drawing in the air with a flashlight. There are David Douglas Duncan's agonizing photographs of troops in Korea. There are samples from W. Eugene Smith's photo essay on a Spanish village. O'Neil, Time Inc.'s Director of Vintage Prints, has assembled a provocative mixture of the frivolous and profound; the book testifies most eloquently to the enduring power of the still photograph. (New York Graphic Society, $29.95)
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