The magazine that gave photography unprecedented power
October 20, 2022 | Source: Monroe Gallery of Photography
Via The Washington Post
October 20, 2022
This fact floored me: Between the Great Depression and the Vietnam War, according to the organizers of "Life Magazine and the Power of Photography," an exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, "the majority of photographs printed and consumed in the United States appeared on the pages of illustrated magazines."
Today, with photographs published and consumed everywhere, it's staggering to think that their dissemination was ever so concentrated.
Preeminent among illustrated magazines was Life. Published as a weekly news magazine between 1936 and 1972, Life magazine sold in the tens of millions. When you include pass-along readership, its pages regularly reached about one-quarter of America's population. -- click to continue with full article
Life Magazine and the Power of Photography Through Jan. 16 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. mfa.org.
Related exhibit: The LIFE Photographers