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LIFE: Photography Under the Skin

For the second time in Europe, unpublished LIFE photographs are being brought out of the archives to be exhibited and auctioned in Paris. The sale and exhibition, entitled The Golden Years of LIFE, focuses on America’s golden age, from the end of the stock market crash in 1929 through the late 1960s. It is an opportunity to revisit the place of photography in the history of the magazine.

As early as 1936, LIFE established itself, in the words of its founder Henry Luce, as “the greatest slide show on earth.” It was the first magazine to be truly focused on photography, showcasing reports by the greatest international journalists.&nbs...

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