Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt
“They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.” — Henry Ward Beecher
We Can Do It
Keep ‘Em Flying Miss USA
Be A Man
By Adolph Triedler
By Dean Cornwell
D-Day, Omaha Beach by Ken Riley
Marine Heading Ashore on D-Day by Tom Lea
Chaplain by Tom Lea
Two Thousand Yard Stare by Tom Lea
A Break in Combat by Qi Debrah
By Qi Debrah
by Qui Debrah
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British photographer Roger Mayne was born in Cambridge and studied Chemistry at Balliol College, Oxford. It was here that he became interested in photographic processing and took his first pictures. Mentored by photographer Hugo van Wadenoyen, Mayne pursued a career as a photographer after graduating in 1951. His photographs of life on Southam Street in Notting Dale made him a key figure in British photography’s break from pictorialism. You can learn more about his life and his work by visiting Rogermayne.com.
Check out some of artist Tsuneo Sanda’s Star Wars-themed artwork below. You can see much more of his work at his site, Sandaworld.com.
Tom Lovell was born in New York City and sold his first illustrations when he was a junior at Syracuse University. He was a prolific illustrator whose work appeared both in the pulps and in issues of National Geographic, where Lovell took great care to make sure that his paintings were historically accurate. When asked about his work, Lovell once said, ” “I consider myself a storyteller with a brush. I try to place myself back in imagined situations that would make interesting and appealing pictures. I am intent on producing paintings that relate to the human experience.” Tom Lovell was inducted into Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1974.
A sampling of both his pulp work and his historical paintings can be found below.
Éirinn go Brách!
New York-based artist George Gross got his start working for the pulp magazines in the 1940s and he was a prolific and in-demand artist for the next four decades. Along with painting covers for Action Stories, Detective Book Magazine, Jungle Stories and countless other magazines, Gross also painted covers for the popular Avenger and Nick Carter paperback series.
Today, the world was saddened to learn of the death of Leonard Nimoy. While Nimoy may have been best known for playing Mr. Spock on Star Trek, he was also an acclaimed photographer who published three collections — Shekhina, The Full Body Project, and Secret Selves — of his work. Nimoy’s work has been exhibited at the R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Nimoy described himself as being primarily a conceptual artist and his work explored issues of body image and his own Jewish heritage.
Leonard Nimoy, R.I.P.
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with these classic retro romance covers by Harry Bennett! Born in New York and raised in Connecticut, Bennett served in World War II and later studied painting and illustration at Chicago’s American Academy of Art. Starting in the 1950s, Bennett was one of the premier illustrators of gothic romance paperbacks. After retiring from commercial illustration in his 60s, Bennett devoted himself to painting and exhibiting his own original work.
Bennett was responsible for a countless number of paperback covers. A small sampling of his work can be found below:
Starting in the late 1940s, many comic book companies tried to broaden their audience by publishing romance comic books. These comics told dramatic love stories in which young women had to deal with issues of cheating, divorce, jealousy, heartache, and the search for the one. With Valentine’s Day approaching, here are some classic romance comic book covers.
Despite with that cover says, this romance doesn’t seem to be ideal.
John certainly looks serious. I hope Doris Bigelow gave her some good advice.
I don’t know how anyone could stay square after seeing that facial hair.
Didn’t anyone in these comics get along with their sister?
Love can drive you crazy.
At least they have something in common.
Like Beyoncé says, put a ring on it…
I love the blue eyeshadow.
Love, fun, and commitment issues on the beach.
I hear Heart Break is lovely this time of year.
I don’t think this is going to work out.
Erik Johansson is a self-taught artist who creates his surreal images through a combination of photography and Photoshop. As he puts it on his website, “He doesn’t capture moments, he capture ideas.” Born in Sweden, he currently lives in Berlin. Among his influences: Salvador Dali, M.C. Escher, Rob Gonslaves, and growing up on the Swedish countryside.
Through the Shattered Lens 