Digitally enhanced 1936 Life Magazine

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scott434

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I enhanced this photo with photoshop of the cover of Life magazine. 1936 West Point soldier. For those of you who would like to frame an 8x10 picture instead of buying the actual magazine. Download the picture and get it printed at walmart for under $4.00! Make a nice little addition to your collection.

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Gear

Gear

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Does anyone know why that particular photo was important enough to cover the first issue of LIFE? It's really not a great photograph, looking pretty goofy, and it doesn't seem to 'say' much. Maybe I'm too young to get its importance.
 
Attila the Professor

Attila the Professor

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Gear said:
Does anyone know why that particular photo was important enough to cover the first issue of LIFE? It's really not a great photograph, looking pretty goofy, and it doesn't seem to 'say' much. Maybe I'm too young to get its importance.
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It's the second issue, apparently. The first issue, a week prior, had a picture of the Fort Peck Dam.

However, here's the description of the second issue's cover:

The front cover is a photograph of a West Point cadet, feeding. Taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
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Montana Smith

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A bit more on the history of Life, and its predecessor in name only:


A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FIRST LIFE MAGAZINE :

The first Life magazine was founded in 1883 by John Ames Mitchell, who ran the magazine until he turned it over to Charles Dana Gibson, the famous illustrator, in 1918. The magazine was published until the early 1930's, when the financial difficulties of the Great Depression caused it to fail.

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The name "LIFE Magazine" was purchased by Henry Luce, who used it for an entirely different kind of magazine published by Time, Inc. starting in 1936. We all are familiar with Time's popular photojournalism magazine, characterized by the ubiquitous Red and White logo. This SECOND LIFE magazine...was published continuously from November of 1936 until December of 1972, and intermittently after that.
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http://2neat.com/magazines/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2



The November issue became a point of contention in this thread on Indy's complete timeline.
 
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scott434

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WilliamBoyd8 said:
Now for the bonus prize:

Identify the West Point cadet whose photograph is on the cover.

:)
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Here's my best shot - He's the one drinking from the cup! LOL Who was he???????
 
WilliamBoyd8

WilliamBoyd8

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The photograph was taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt and originally titled "Hazing at West Point".

The cadet is not identified, but no doubt many at West Point knew who he was when the magazine came out.

Photographic prints have sold for $3,000 or more.

The Life Magazine cover photo was cropped, the actual photo shows a second seated cadet.
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/icon18.htm
http://www.gallerym.com/work.cfm?ID=683

Alfred Eisenstaedt took the famous 1945 photo of a sailor kissing a girl, over 100 people have claimed to be either the sailor or the girl.

I wonder what became of the cadet in the photo, did he graduate, serve in World War II, survive?

He would be almost 100 years old now.

Google has the entire magazine online, including some paintings by a gentleman well-known to Indy fans:

http://books.google.com/books?id=NEEEAAAAMBAJ

:)
 
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