The LIFE Photographers

Celebrating Monroe Gallery’s 20th Anniversary in Santa Fe

2022-05-06 - 2022-06-26

In April, 2002, Monroe Gallery opened its doors in Santa Fe, NM with an exhibition of LIFE magazine photographers. Celebrating the Gallery’s 20th anniversary in Santa Fe, a new exhibition revisits and re-examines photographs from the glory days of LIFE magazine. "The LIFE  Photographers”, an exhibition of photographs by the pioneering photographers of Life Magazine, will open with a public reception on Friday, May 6 from 5 – 7 pm. In attendance will be Life photographer Bob Gomel, now 88, known for his iconic images of world leaders, athletes, entertainers, and major events of the 1960s. “LIFE Magazine Photographers” will continue through June 26, 2022.

A photo-journalistic triumph, LIFE was a stunning affirmation of the humanist notion that the camera’s proper function is to persuade and inform Founded by Henry Luce, publisher of Time, it was long one of the most popular and widely imitated of American magazines, selling millions of copies a week. From its start, Life emphasized photography, with gripping, superbly chosen news photographs, amplified by photo features and photo-essays on an international range of topics. Its photographers were the elite of their craft and enjoyed worldwide esteem. Published weekly from 1936 to 1972, the work of the photographers of LIFE magazine came to define the medium of photojournalism, and their photographs recorded history and informed us all for most of the 20th Century.  

LIFE Magazine Show Opens At Monroe Gallery Of Photography

Fort Peck Dam, Fort Peck, MT, 1936 (Cover for first issue of LIFE magazine)<br/>
Diversion tunnel construction, Ft.Peck Dam, 1936<br/>Please contact Gallery for price
Entering New Deal, Montana, 1936<br/>Please contact Gallery for price
Migrant woman by the side of the road, Texas, 1937<br/>
Boy Sitting on a Bed in Oil Boom Town of Freer, Texas, 1937 (Life Magazine/Time Warner Inc.)<br/>
Roustabouts in Freer, Texas, take time off from their job, 1937 (Life Magazine/Time Warner Inc.)<br/>
A Pioneer Organizer Of The Office Workers' Union, Wall Street and Broad Street, NYC, 1936<br/>
Ministers Meeting, Fascist Rome, Italy, 1940<br/>
The First Meeting of Mussolini and Hitler,Venice, June 13,1934<br/>
Women working in defense industry, Gary, IN, 1943<br/>
Moscow Bombing, July 1941<br/>
Buchenwald Prisoners, 1945 (Time Inc.)<br/>
Japanese Surrender on Board the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945 (Life Magazine/Time Warner Inc.)<br/>
V-J Day in Times Square, New York, August 14, 1945 (Time Inc)<br/>
Winston Churchill, Liverpool, 1951<br/>
Mother and Child in Hiroshima, Four Months After the Atomic Bomb Dropped<br/>
Albert Einstein, Princeton, New Jersey, 1947<br/>
Gandhi, India, 1946<br/>
An American Block, Hamilton, Ohio, 1943<br/>
Children at a Puppet Theatre, Paris, 1963 Time Inc.<br/>
Jacques D'Amboise Playing with his Sons, Seattle, Washington, 1962<br/>
Coney Island, NY, July 4, 1949<br/>
Joe Munroe; Twenty-two exuberant St. Mary's College students folded and stacked inside an on campus phone booth in an attempt to set a record for phone booth cramming, Moraga, California, March 26, 1959<br/>
In a Los Angeles hotel suite, John F. Kennedy confers with his brother and campaign manager Bobby during the 1960 Democratic National Convention.<br/>
John F. Kennedy, Cape Canaveral in 1962 where he spoke to NASA personnel before giving his famous speech at Rice University about going to the moon<br/>
On the 6:25 from Grand Central to Stamford, CT, November 22, 1963<br/>Please contact Gallery for price
Robert F. Kennedy in front of a poster of his brother, Columbus, Ohio, 1968<br/>
Busboy Juan Romero tries to comfort Presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy after assassination attempt, June 5, 1968<br/>
Accordion-playing Chief Petty Officer (USN) Graham Jackson as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s flag-draped funeral train left Warm Springs, Ga., April 13, 1945<br/>Please contact Gallery for price
Marilyn Monroe singing “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy, Madison Square Garden, NY, May 19, 1962<br/>
Frank Sinatra and Jackie Gleason, 1965<br/>
Steve McQueen at home with pistol<br/>
The Beatles, Miami, 1964<br/>Please contact Gallery for price
John Lennon on the train from New York to Washington for the Beatles' concert at Washington Coliseum, Feb. 11, 1964<br/>
Jackson Pollock painting in his studio, Springs, New York, 1949 ? Time Inc<br/>
Mickey Mantle Having A Bad Day At Yankee Stadium, New York, 1965<br/>
1968 Olympics Black Power salute, by John Dominis, Time Inc<br/>
Boxer Muhammad Ali taunting Joe Frazier at Frazier's training headquarters, 1971 by John Shearer.<br/>Please contact Gallery for price
Black Muslim leader Malcolm X photographing Cassius Clay, Miami, 1964<br/>Please contact Gallery for price
Brown Sisters Walk to School, Topeka, Kansas, 1953. Photograph by Carl Iwasaki<br/>
The LIFE Photographers, New York, 1960<br/>