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We’ve all had a weekend like this once in our lives, whether it was deep in the fried green tomato south of USA or an hour’s drive outside the city in French Brie country. It’s a soul-lifting kind of weekend that doesn’t require much more than the great outdoors, a roof to sleep under, good [...]
So Valentine’s Day is coming up and I’m feeling a little bombarded by the underwear industry at present, trying to convince me that I need a five-piece lingerie set for this one night of the year, garter belt and all. Can’t I just be left in peace to pick up my 3-for-2 cotton briefs from [...]
In this most deep and dark of winters (aren’t they always), what I would give for the sort of weather that just makes you want to burst out of the house and run the streets in short shorts. This is basically what is is happening in these photographs I fished out of the LIFE archives… With [...]
Classical ballet as we know it today was born within the Paris Opera. In 1930, LIFE magazine staff photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt, was given access to the sacred world of the prima ballerina at the Grand Opera de Paris. He sat in on a rehearsal for Swan Lake, photographing the dancers doing their barre exercises, perfecting choreography, as [...]
In 1955, LIFE photographer Joseph Scherschel spent a day shooting a rather unusual subject for a spread in the magazine entitled, “Living Room Lion – Blondie, A Docile 200-Pound Texan, Becomes A Member of the Family.” The oversized house cat belonged to Charles Hipp, an oil businessman based in Graham, Texas. You’re probably thinking, ‘another bored [...]
What I remember most about Jessica Rabbit is how she was always wearing that provocative red dress, cut oh so inappropriately low at the back, even just to run around town. Meet the real-life Jessica Rabbit, Miss Vikki Dougan, the 1950s ‘It girl’ who inspired the iconic cartoon sex bomb… Photographs by Ralph Crane for [...]
I‘ve been at it again, rummaging through the vault of treasures in the LIFE archives. This time I found these sassy snaps all the way from the jazz era taken by LIFE photographer Bob Landry. The only other details given for the photo essay however are simply: “Streetcar Party, May, 1942″. So it looks like [...]
So I went sniffing around the LIFE Archives again and this time found some rather unusual photographs from an underwater fashion show, taken by Sam Shere in 1947. There wasn’t much more information than that available on the quirky event, but in one of the photographs of a model standing around the pool, I spotted a [...]
Upon learning of his muse’s engagement to the Prince of Monaco, Alfred Hitchcock allegedly said, “I’m very happy that Grace has found herself such a good part…” In 1956, just two weeks before her wedding, Grace Kelly packed up her life in Hollywood for good and made the voyage to Europe. These rare and unpublished [...]
This post is pretty much the result of me getting lost in the LIFE magazine archives again and coming across a bunch of mostly unpublished photographs of cowgirls that were too good not to share. These snaps are a melange of photo stories by LIFE photographers, Nina Leen, Peter Stackpole and Cornell Capa between 1947-48 at the [...]
We’ve all had a weekend like this once in our lives, whether it was deep in the fried green
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Just so we can get an inkling, a whiff, a tiny peak into what it would be like to have the job of
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“Amidst crowds of anxious immigrants milling about, Hine had to locate his subject, isolate
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So Valentine’s Day is coming up and I’m feeling a little bombarded by the underwear
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I‘m not a wedding day dreamer so much as I am a dreamer of finding pretty much any excuse to
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“That’s the sort of turd David Bailey is”, says Duffy remembering David Bailey
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In this most deep and dark of winters (aren’t they always), what I would give for the sort of
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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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Guest article by The Rucksack Foodie Part of living in the Midwest is having an appreciation for
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Classical ballet as we know it today was born within the Paris Opera. In 1930, LIFE magazine staff
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If you’re ever really lost on a road trip across America, and I’m talking really lost
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Most of the 75,000 residents of Oak Ridge, Tennessee had no idea they were processing uranium until
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Once upon a time, the American bank building was the biggest, baddest, strongest and shiniest on
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There’s something about this photo story that I dug out of the LIFE archives that makes me
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