#Life magazine

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The Connoisseur, 1961

Artist: Norman Rockwell

Left: Jackson Pollock works in his Long Island studio, 1949, for ‘LIFE’ magazine, photographer Martha Holmes.

Right: Reference photo for “The Connoisseur”, photographer Louie Lamone.

Both on view in Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World at the Norman Rockwell Museum.

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The anti-social media of a century past. LIFE, December 23, 1926

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Ballerinas standing on window sill in rehearsal room at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Life, 1936

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Marilyn Monroe (1952)

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ph. Nina Leen for Life Magazine, Legs, which always give trouble, sprawl in aisle at the movies, 1945

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Marilyn Monroe in, "The Hat Sitting," for LIFE Magazine, June 1958 Photography by Carl Perutz in New York, NYC

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Marilyn Monroe posing as Clara Bow for Life Magazine's December 22nd issue, 1958. Photo by Richard Avedon.

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Life magazine, September 28, 1928. Cover art by Russell Patterson.

Photo: Condé Nast  Store

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Frank Xavier Leyendecker, Life Magazine cover, The Flapper, 2. February 1922

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Richard Avedon as Theda Bara in "Cleopatra" (1917) for LIFE magazine, 1958.

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high schoolers photographed by arthur schatz for life magazine, 1969

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Howard Sochurek, “Prayer Marathon in Memphis,” Life, 1952

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In 1963 photographer Bert Stern photographed some of the top actors/actresses at the height of their fame playing their dream roles for a photo series in LIFE magazine's December 20, 1963 issue.

Cary Grant as Charlie Chaplin's Tramp / Audrey Hepburn as Pearl White in 'Perils of Pauline' / Tony Curtis & Natalie Wood as Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky in 'The Sheik' / Paul Newman as a Douglas Fairbanks Sr. swashbuckler / Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin as Judah Ben-Hur and Messala from 'Ben-Hur' / Bing Crosby & Bob Hope as 1930s gangsters / Jack Lemmon as a war pilot / Shirley MacLaine as one of Busby Berkeley's showgirls / Rock Hudson as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.