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Love of Life A selection of photographs from e life Picture Collection® October – December 2011 Riggs Life catalog 5/23/13 2:51 PM Page 2
Donner Pass John Dominis ©1949 Time Inc. e Southern Pacific Engine travels over snow covered tracks Babe Ruth’s Final Appearance e Photo Journalist in Donner Pass, California. e at Yankee Stadium Andreas Feininger Southern Pacific tamed the great Sofia Loren Laughing Ralph Morse ©1951 Time Inc. American deserts and crossed Alfred Eisenstaedt ©1948 Time Inc. more mountain summits than ©1961 Time Inc. One of Andreas Feininger’s Baseball great Babe Ruth, in any other railroad in the United most famous images is the Actress Sophia Loren laughing uniform, addressing crowd & States, but the “King of the uncharacteristic 1951 shot, “e while exchanging jokes during press during final appearance at Grades” was Donner Pass. Photojournalist” featuring prize- lunch break on “MADAME” Yankee Stadium (shortly before Intense winter storms and record winning Magnum photographer movie set. death). is rare color image snowfalls are commonplace on Dennis Stock ... looking like shows Babe Ruth addressing Donner Pass, Southern Pacific’s some kind of bionic creature ... the crowd during his final route through the Sierra with a Leica III to his face, one appearance at Yankee Stadium Nevada’s. Since its discovery in eye hidden by the ancillary on June 13, 1948. Ruth’s #3 1844, the mountain passageway viewfinder, the other by the lens. uniform was retired during this has claimed its share of victims, appearance, which was also the including the party of settlers 25th anniversary of Yankee aer whom the pass was named. Stadium, known as “e House e Donner’s punishing at Ruth Built.” Ruth died of conditions set an enduring throat cancer at age 53, shortly standard for mountain aer this photograph was taken. railroading. Katharine Hepburn Since LIFE Magazine only Alfred Eisenstaedt published one page of color ©1938 Time Inc. pictures in 1948, the magazine did not print this photograph. Portrait of actress Katharine is image was first seen on a Hepburn with cigarette in hand. 2002 HBO television special about famous sports photos.
Beatles Cover Photo Shot John Dominis ©1964 Time Inc is shot of the members of singing group the Beatles (R-L): John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr was made the LIFE cover, Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Relaxing at Home August 1964. Jackie Gleason Alfred Eisenstaedt John Dominis ©1953 Time Inc. ©1964 Time Inc. Marilyn relaxing at home in Pair of Trees—Snowscape Frank Sinatra (L) sharing a her den. Alfred Eisenstaedt ©1947 Time Inc. laugh with fellow entertainer Jackie Gleason (R). SWITZERLAND: Pair of trees rising from a snow covered landscape. Riggs Life catalog 5/23/13 2:51 PM Page 3
Mohandas K. Gandhi Reading by Spinning Wheel Margaret Bourke-White ©1946 Time Inc.
Steve McQueen Sulphur Bath Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi Hat Designed by Lilly Dache Future Ballerinas John Dominis reading as he sits cross-legged Alfred Eisenstaedt Alfred Eisenstaedt ©1963 Time Inc. on floor next to a spinning ©1937 Time Inc. ©1936 Time Inc. wheel in the foreground as Professional model Janet Ballerinas standing on window Actor Steve McQueen and wife symbol of India’s struggle for MacLeod wearing veiled hat sill in rehearsal room at George taking sulphur bath at home. independence, at home. designed by Lilly Dache. Balanchine’s School of American Ballet.
Steve McQueen and Mike ©1963 Time Inc. John Dominis Children at a Puppet eatre Alfred Eisenstaedt Portrait of American actor Steve ©1963 Time Inc. McQueen (1930–1980) and his Alaskan Malamute named Mike Children reacting to the story of on a camping trip in the Sierra “Saint George and the Dragon,” Madre Mountains, California, the moment the dragon is slain, Route 66 May 1963. VJ Day Celebration— at the Guignol puppet show, Andreas Feininger Times Square Parc de Montsouris in the ©1947 Time Inc. Alfred Eisenstaedt Tuileries, Paris, France. ©1945 Time Inc. Dramatic cumulus clouds floating over a lonely Texaco Happy sailor kissing nurse in gas station and hitchhiker along Times Square during impromptu a stretch of US 66. VJ Day celebration following announcement of the Japanese surrender and the end of WWII. ree Frames of Children at a Puppet eatre Alfred Eisenstaedt ©1963 Time Inc. e enlarged negative strip of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous Steve McQueen Leather Jacket image, “Children at a Puppet John Dominis eatre”. Children reacting to the DC-4 over Manhattan ©1963 Time Inc. story of “Saint George and the Margaret Bourke-White Dragon,” the moment the dragon Georgia O’Keeffe Actor Steve McQueen during ©1939 Time Inc. is slain, at the Guignol puppet motorcycle race across the John Loengard Aerial view of airline passenger show, Parc de Montsouris in the Mojave Desert Mojave Desert, in ©1966 Time Inc. plane (DC-4) flying over Tuileries, Paris, France. both digital and silver gelatin Artist Georgia O’Keeffe, pioneer buildings in midtown signed limited edition original, of modern American Art, at 80. Manhattan. on loan from private collection of Robyn and Alan Jensen, $7600 Riggs Life catalog 5/23/13 2:51 PM Page 4
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