Looking at Life Magazine

by Erika Doss and DOSS E

This volume focuses on how Life Magazine, in its editorial and, especially, its pictorial style, played a leading role in shaping American national identity from the Great Depression through to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560989890
• ISBN13: 9781560989899
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 10.5"

Customer Reviews

An absorbing, cross-cultural slice of American history

Looking At Life Magazine is capably edited by Erika Doss (professor of art history and director of the American studies program at the University of Colorado, Boulder). It is an absorbing, cross-cultural slice of American history, filled with black-and-white photographs drawn from the pages of Life magazine and textually narrated in direct yet flavorful prose. More than just a broad overview, Looking At Life Magazine is also an historical record of the crucial landmark events that impacted upon and changed American culture and society throughout its history. Looking At Life Magazine is an enthusiastically recommended contribution to 20th Century American Studies reference collections and reading lists, as well as being a highly enjoyable and recommended book for the non-specialist general reader wanting to look back upon on of the most important and popular American magazines of its day.