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We went A snapshot of searching for images 22 LIFE photographers from the likes of Margaret who helped define Bourke-White and Alfred photography in the 20th Eisenstaedt that had century, and beyond. © GEORGE STROCK/LIFE © BOBBY MODEL departments 4 Inside 20 In Print 16 American Photo Shooting a billionaire and Telling the story of a naked model in ASCHEN BOOKS adventure photographer shark-infested waters. Bobby Model. 22 AP Interview 6 Editor’s Note South African photog- Why LIFE magazine’s rapher Roger Ballen photography still matters talks about capturing in a post-print world. his dark dreams. © BUNNY YEAGER/COURTESY T 11 Inside 27 Witness Photography Bobby Model’s photo 12 A historic look at legs career was ended with © LESLIE THOMSON from the ground up, and a terrible injury, but On the cover: much more. don’t count him out. 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Ruotolo Senior Account Executive Sara Schiano Flynn Business Development Manager Phil Mistry West Coast Ad Director Bob Meth Account Executive Tara Weedfald Classified Ad Sales Chip Parham Group Billing Director Irene Reyes Coles Director of Special Events Michelle Cast Senior Promotion Designer Lindsay Krist Senior Promotion Designer Erin Friedmann Bobby Special Events Producer Erica Johnson Model by Special Events Coordinator Vanessa Vazquez Rich Workshop Coordinator Athos Kyriakides Clarkson Editorial Director, PopPhoto.com Gene Newman Editor, PopPhoto.com Stan Horaczek Assistant Editor, PopPhoto.com Krista Soriano Web Producer Adam Christie Assistant to the Publisher Karen Persaud he news about Bobby Model spread transferred to Craig Hospital, a renowned Sales Assistant Lauren Brewer T Vice President of Operations Michael Esposito over the Internet quickly. It was June center for brain trauma treatment. Clark- Production Director Diane Arlotta 2007 when Model, a man who enjoyed son visited him there and saw that Mod- Production Manager Vicki Feinmel Prepress Technician Annie Andres the risk and rewards of climbing moun- el’s spirit was fully intact, despite his pain General Manager Bill Frank tains and taking pictures, sustained severe and difficulties in moving and speaking. VP, Director of Corp. Marketing Al Silvestri head injuries after a chunk of concrete Our story about Model on page 27 fea- VP, Consumer Marketing Philip Ketonis Group Circulation Director William Carter was thrown through the windshield of a tures a photo that Clarkson made in late VP, Retail Sales & Marketing William Michalopoulos pickup truck he was riding in while vis- February when Model visited his mother’s Newsstand Sales Director John Kayser iting South Africa. His friends read blogs, home in Wyoming. The piece was writ- John Owens, Senior VP, Group Editorial Director e-mailed each other, hoped for the best, ten by Stephen Singular, a Denver-based Advertising Inquiries: Anthony Ruotolo, 1633 Broadway, 43rd and prepared for the worst. author of 17 books, including When Floor, New York, NY 10019; (212) 767-6397. Classified Ad Sales: (800) 445-6066. Detroit Ad Representative: Melissa Homant, 1585 One of those friends was Rich Men Become Gods, the story of Mormon Eisenhower Place, Ann Arbor, MI 48108; (734) 205-1104. Corporate Clarkson, the former director of photog- polygamist Warren Jeffs. Singular says that Direct Response Sales Manager: Peter Brevett, (212) 767-5702. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations raphy at National Geographic, who had during his reporting he came to under- COPYRIGHT © 2009, HACHETTE FILIPACCHI MEDIA U.S., INC. AMERICAN PHOTO® IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF HACHETTE met Model a few years earlier when stand how profoundly Model always FILIPACCHI MEDIA U.S., INC., PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES. the young photographer interned at his needed to prove himself, whether the Alain Lemarchand, President and Chief Executive Officer; Philippe Guelton, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer; Denver-based production company. In challenge was scaling a cliff or shooting Catherine R. Flickinger, Executive Vice President and General Counsel; October of 2007, Model was taken to an Third World slums. “He overcame every- Deborah Burns, Senior Vice President, Chief Brand Officer, Luxury Design Group; Carlos Lamadrid, Senior Vice President, acute care hospital in Denver, to be thing,” says Singular, “and that’s why we Chief Brand Officer, Woman’s Day Group; Carol A. Smith, Senior Vice President, Chief Brand Officer, ELLE Group; nearer to his family in Wyoming, and later can’t count him out now, either.” Philippe Perthuis, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer; Tom Donohue, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer; Bennett Theimann, Senior Vice President, Chief Procurement Officer; Thomas Masterson, Senior Vice President, Consumer Marketing & Manufacturing; Todd Anderman, Senior Vice President, Digital Media; Anne Lattimore Janas, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications; Eileen F. Mullins, Vice President, Human Resources. HFM U.S. is part of Lagardère Active, © MARK DAIL a division of Lagardère SCA (www.lagardere.com) Didier Quillot, CEO, Lagardère Active; Jean de Boisdeffre, CEO International of Magazine Division, Lagardère Active.