Nina Leen
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.– Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.– Federico Fellini
‘Lady Luck’
Life Magazine, 1924
Cover art by Rea Irvin
John Held Jr
Life, 1925
Illustration by John Held Jr
Life, 1926
Life 1929
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Illustration by Coles Phillips
Life Mag-1923
Art by W.T. Benda
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Nina Leen for Life Magazine
Photo by Nina Leen
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Egyptian belly dancer, Samia Gamal, 1952
Photo by Loomis Dean for LIFE
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Actress Virginia Gilmore adjusts her stockings, while looking at photos of other shameless exhibitionists from the past; photo for Life magazine, 1939.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray…–
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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1948
Life Magazine
Photo by Mark Kauffman