Tag: American magazines

  • Magazine of the Week

    In the early 20th century, photography was novel and exciting. Magazines printed few  photographs because they were expensive. Into this market marched the magazine Life, redesigned to feature photographs of everything that could possibly be interesting to its middle-American public. It’s contribution to American culture rests on its photographers, who captured, and its printers, who…

  • What are you selling?

    Last week when I was working on how to research America in the 1950s, I came across a ton of wonderful ads in the magazines I photographed. I thought they were too cool not to share some of this great ad imagery with you this week. Last week I was flipping through Fortune magazine and…