Six Pictures: Life Magazine’s Ed Clark

Celebrated photo historian and former Senior Photography Curator at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City) goes deep on six key images from his new book about one of Life magazine’s most prolific—and least-known—photographers.

During Life’s high-flying years, in the 1940s and 1950s, when its readership was still skyrocketing and each week’s cover story dominated America’s dinner-table conversations, the magazine’s rock-star photographers jetted around the world on lavish, ...

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