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| | | The LIFE Picture Collection | | The National Geographic Collection | | The Associated Press Collection | | The Nat Fein Collection | | Special Collections |
| | Click on logo to view collection | On November 23, 1936, America's first photojournalistic magazine, LIFE, was published. LIFE Magazine fulfilled this ambitious vision with unprecedented photographic coverage from the intimate drama of daily life to the spectacle of world events. More than 2,100 issues of LIFE have been published to date, featuring tens of thousands of images. But LIFE Magazine is not just a prized piece of American cultural history. This iconic publication re-launched with at least eight premium magazines a year. Several of these high-end, softcover, collectible publications are accompanied by hardcover book versions that sell in leading bookstores. Recently, Time Inc. reincarnated the magazine as a Sunday newspaper supplement. Recently named,''One of the 100 Brands that Changed America,'' LIFE, the world's most respected source of compelling photojournalism, is still a powerhouse brand among today's collectors and consumers.In addition to the photographic archives of LIFE Magazine, the LIFE Picture Collection includes The Mansell Collection, featuring over a million historical images, rare illustrations, prints and photographs covering just about every imaginable subject. The LIFE Picture Collection photographs are hand-embossed with The LIFE Picture Collection logo and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. Certain limited edition photographs are hand-signed by the photographer, and each limited edition is hand-numbered to correspond with its Certificate of Authenticity.
| | Click on logo to view collection | The National Geographic Collection is comprised of images from the photographic archives of The National Geographic Society, one of the world's largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations. Founded in 1888 to increase awareness of and disseminate geographic knowledge, National Geographic reflects the world through magazines, books, videos, maps, television and interactive media. National Geographic magazine, the Society's official journal is published in 20 languages and is read by 40 million people each month in every country of the world. The National Geographic Channel reaches more than 149 million households in 142 countries and is broadcast in 23 languages.Nationalgeographic.com averages more than 40 million page views per month. National Geographic has funded over 7,000 scientific research projects and supports an education program that combats geographic illiteracy. National Geographic Enterprises includes licensing, catalog , online commerce and retail arms. These units oversee the merchandise related to the National Geographic brand worldwide. For more information, log on to www.nationalgeographic.com, AOL Keyword: NatGeo.
| | Click on logo to view collection | The Associated Press is the world's oldest and largest news gathering organization. Its photo archive of 20th Century news and historical photography is the largest and most comprehensive in the world, containing over 60 million images. The Associated Press has been honored with the Pulitzer Prize for Photography 28 times since the award's inception, including perhaps the most recognizable image in American photojournalism,”Flag Raising at Iwo Jima”. The Associated Press Collection photographs are published as Open Edition and Limited Edition photographic prints. The Associated Press was born on an early morning in May 1848 with 10 men representing six New York City newspapers sitting around an office table of the New York Sun in heated debate. At issue was the costly collection of news by telegraphy. The newly invented telegraph made rapid transmission of news possible by wire but at costs so high that it would strain the resources of any single paper. The Journal of Commerce's David Hale argued that only a joint effort between New York's newspapers could make telegraphy affordable and effectively block telegraph companies from interfering with their news gathering process. Hale argued that newspapers had to work together if the public was to be served with increasingly wider coverage of the United States and the world. Although reluctant at first, the six highly competitive papers agreed to Hale's historic plan and The Associated Press was born.
| | Click on logo to view collection | Nat Fein is world-renowned for his touching, humorous and compelling photographs. A press photographer for the New York Herald Tribune for thirty-three years, Fein is well-known for his ability to capture the soul of a bygone era in New York City. Nat Fein won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for what is arguably the most celebrated photograph in sports history, The Babe Bows Out”, exclusively offered here as a 20” X 24” limited edition photograph.The Nat Fein Collection images are limited edition silver gelatin photographs printed on double weight, fiber-based paper.Nat Fein's beat was New York in the decades immediately following World War II. His art was demonstrated in his ability to capture the heart and soul of an era on film, an era in which true American heroes piqued the imagination of young and old; an era that saw great changes take place in New York. The city itself was undergoing a metamorphosis in the 40s and 50s: the end of the trolley car, a vestige of a calmer lifestyle; the slow transformation of the Lower East Side from a clamorous area of Jewish immigrants, of which the pushcart was a primary symbol, to the gradual side-by-side Spanish influence as immigrants from Latin America began to gravitate to this historic hub to name a few. Nat Fein captured these people and these momentous occasions on film unlike any other of his tme.This Pulitzer Prize winning photographer has won more awards than any other.
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