Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Oct. 23 review of LIFE'S Picture History of World War II I was interested to see a photograph of the burning carrier Franklin, However, the credit line puzzles...
Having been afloat in a lifejacket several miles astern of the Franklin at the time the photograph was made, I cannot say from personal knowledge that Captain Steichen did not make that photograph. I do remember that in talking with survivors of the Franklin photo lab ... they told me that the pictures from which this is a selection were made by enlisted photographers aboard the cruiser which came alongside...
Demotri Kessel, one of Life's top photographers, made a special trip with his staff last fall to Istanbul, Turkey in order to photograph the mosaics. They decorate the interior of the Haghia Sophia mosque, which will celebrate its 1,413 birthday this Christmas. Selected pictures from over 1000 shots should appear in a full-color spread much like Life's article last Christmas on the Sistine Chapel in Rome...
Last week the chignon, first popular in France in the 18305,* was staging a triumphant comeback in Manhattan. On its cover, LIFE had run a glamorous photograph of TV Star Faye Emerson with chignon. The fashion magazines were embracing the false buns, braids and curls with the ecstatic gushes and gurgles which seasonably propel new fashion twists across the nation. And milliners were joyfully proving that a whole new set of hats would be necessary. A really modish woman was expected to carry extra chignons with her (cost: $7.50 to $150 each) and to be ready to run the gamut...
During World War II his life went to pieces, too. The Nazis overran the French village where he had taken refuge, and Soutine was ordered to paint, from a photograph, a picture of an occupying officer's son. He turned out a painstaking miniature. In 1943 his ulcers killed...