Life Magazine

LIFE was a famous American magazine developed by Henry Luce (publisher of Time) and produced from 1936 through 2007. It proved unusually popular demonstrating pictures could tell stories just as well as words. The focus was the pictures with the captions and words being secondary. The magazine became immensely popular almost from its inception, but was undercut by television and steadily lost readers after 1960.

LIFE magazine helped to bring many inspirational stories to the forefront. The coverage of the killings of Jim Elliott and four other missionaries in 1956 brought their story to mainstream America and created a resurgence in the overseas missionary movement.

LIFE magazine named Thomas Edison as the most influential person of the second millennium.^[1]

Further reading[edit]

• Brinkley, Alan. The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century (2010)
• Baughman, James L. Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the American News Media (2001) excerpt and text search
• Elson, Robert T. Time Inc: The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise, 1923-1941 (1968); vol. 2: The World of Time Inc.: The Intimate History, 1941-1960 (1973)

References[edit]

1. ↑ http://en.allexperts.com/e/l/li/life_(magazine).htm#hd4

External links[edit]

• LIFE photo archive