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Life Sixty Years: A 60th Anniversary Celebration 1936-1996 (Life Magazine)
by (Editor: Life Magazine)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Bulfinch Pr (1996-11)
ISBN: 0821223356
EAN: 9780821223352
Dewy Decimal #: 779.0904
Hardcover: 192 pages
SKU: 117194
Condition: Very Good
Comments: 0821223356 Book free of markings. Jacket shows very light wear. Interior evidences little to no use. Overall, a very pretty copy. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Collects more than two hundred photographs from Life magazine taken from 1936 to the present, offering readers a decade-by-decade perspective on our nation's wars, presidents, celebrities, disasters, celebrations, scientific achievements, and everyday life.
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Customer Reviews
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Pictures tell story where words fail
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-07-09
LIFE Sixty Years is a look at photos from LIFE Magazine's archives from their beginning in 1936 through 1996. I am a very visual person. I need to see something to truly understand it. When reading certain books, I often have Google images open just to help me get a better idea of what's being described. I read the Illustrated edition of The DaVinci Code. During The Art Thief, I was constantly searching. This book is almost sensory overload for me, but at the same time not quite satisfying. Looking at the lush pictures of fashion, nature, and animals, I can't help but be awed by creations both manmade and from God. The pictures of disasters and unrest held my attention the longest. I find myself studying the images of faces looking for how they interpreted the scene in which they've found themselves. Seeing MLK's stoic acceptance of his arrest, the brutality of a police officer slamming his billy club on the back of a unionizer puts me in that moment. There's an image of a family in Arlington National Cemetery at the funeral of a Gulf War soldier. The children reflect complete lack of understanding. The mother is struggling for control, touching her children both for reassurance and to assure. A few pages later is the famous picture of a family running across a tarmac to greet their father who has been released as a Vietnam POW after six years in captivity. The daughter in front has completely left the ground in anticipation of meeting his arms. Her total joy moved me to tears. I wish that there had been more pictures so I could have great understanding. Great book.
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Sixty Years
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-04-06
This is a great book. Brought back so many memories and with such unforgetable photos.
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Lifeless Review of 60 Lively Years
Rating  (2)
Date: 2000-05-08
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
This surprisingly short (less than 200 pp) book attempts a vast sweep of coverage and falls short. Its failings extend beyond gaps, however, which are arguably inevitable in a survey of this sort. One might more readily excuse the gaps (such as omitting AIDS and the gay rights movement from the "Protest and Unrest" section, or JFK's assassination from the section on the presidency), if it weren't for the redundancy of having both a "Hollywood" and an "Arts & Entertainment" section, plus "Fashion, Fads & Fun," which cover far too much of the same ground. Worse, even those who expect less substance from Life than I may have hoped to see are likely to be disappointed by the all-important photos. Far too many are presented in awkward two-page spreads which are crossed in the center by the book's binding, ruining much of the photos' effect.
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