Book artists in Life Magazine

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Book artists in Life Magazine

1cupidum
Mar 30, 2021, 1:39 am

I just saw this listing for original photographs on eBay:

"Robert Sage, Graveurs parisiens, 9 photographies originales pour Life Magazine, mars 1949.
tirages argentiques d’époque, d’un format 24 x 19,5 cm, portant au dos la signature de Robert Sage, diverses annotations et le cachet de Life
- Édouard Goerg dans son atelier, tenant une de ses lithographies
- Édouard Goerg dans son atelier, encrant une plaque gravée
- Demetrios Galanis gravant dans son atelier
- Demetrios Galanis examinant une gravure en mezzotinte
- Jean-Gabriel Daragnès tenant un portrait gravé d’Edgar Allan Poe
- Hermine David gravant à la pointe-sèche
- Pedro Flores réalisant une eau-forte : le bain d’acide
- Pedro Flores réalisant une eau-forte : la presse
Graveur maniant un burin"

I will not buy it, but it would be interesting to acquire a copy of the relevant Life Magazine. The question is what issue it is. Wasn't Life a weekly?

2AMindForeverVoyaging
Mar 30, 2021, 9:36 am

There is a digital archive of Life magazine that might help you out: https://books.google.com/books?id=gU0EAAAAMBAJ&source=gbs_all_issues_r&c.... If you click on the 1945 tab you can then scroll over to the March '49 issues and try to track this down.

3cupidum
Modificato: Mar 31, 2021, 2:37 am

>2 AMindForeverVoyaging: Thank you for that information. What a gold mine!

Unfortunately, it seems like the information in the eBay listing was not correct, or perhaps it just meant that the photos were taken in March but appeared in a later issue. I have checked through both March and April, without finding anything. Won't give up yet, though.

Edit: Found this Heritage Press ad, though: https://books.google.se/books?id=vUEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9&dq=galanis&hl=s...