Monday, March 26, 2007
END OF LIFE
Today, Time publishing pulled the plug on
I know. A lot of people thought that it was dead already.
Not so.
It would appear in a vaporous, feeble version as a supplement in many newspapers. The LATimes carried it.
When I was a kid, we got LIFE every week. You never used the lower case, incidentally.
It was a picture magazine. Remember. This was before television.
Photographers became famous through their pages.
I haven't read it in years; not even our supplement.
But it still feels like a loss. As though a childhood friend who you have not seen in years died.
Well, that is exactly what it is.
We used to look and look at those pages.
As a matter of fact, its major competitor LOOK, never quite made it to LIFE'S level.
Photojournalism is not dead. It still lives on the net and in some magazines.
But there will never be another LIFE.
This is a photo of the baby when it was born.
Labels: nostalgia