LIFE MAGAZINE COVERS FROM A FASHION POINT OF VIEW

 Life magazine, is an American magazine that ran weekly from 1883 to 1972, published initially as a humor and general interest magazine. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936, solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name. Life was a weekly news magazine with a strong emphasis on photojournalism. We all know these icon covers with JFK on a sailing boat and a sailor who kisses a nurse. I tried to look at their covers with a fashion eye and I found some great covers with fashion statements which are still relevant. Like the first cover with the Japan jacket, Ernest Hemingway in his striped T-shirt or Mr Fonda in his camel coat who for sure inspired Kanye West.

LOOMIS DEAN - BEACH BUMS OF THE 50s

Loomis Dean was the son of a grocer and a schoolteacher, and originally from Monticello, Florida. He became fascinated with photography while watching a friend print a photograph in a darkroom, and later chose to study photography at the Eastman School of Photography in Rochester, New York.

In 1947, he joined the staff of Life, photographing such stars as Elvis Presley and Lucille Ball. In August 1950 Life Magazine published pictures of a day on the beach at San Onofre, California.