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New Life for a Fabled MagazineIn an era before the Internet, cable television and the near-instantaneous transmission of news, LIFE brought the world into America's living room like nothing else. Every week for 36 years, the photographers of the iconic magazine were America's eyes on the world.
When the fabled picture magazine ended its run as a general circulation weekly in 1972, it was thought to be the end of an era. However, the LIFE imprint has proved to have more lives than a cat with an attitude.
The latest examples: Some 1,000 original prints from the magazine's archives were recently given to the International Center of Photography. The ICP is celebrating the addition to its collection with "Looking at LIFE," an exhibit that presents a cross section of the images that earned the magazine its reputation. An accompanying book, "The Great LIFE Photographers" (Bulfinch Press/$50) is a dictionary-sized volume that showcases the magazine's great shooters. And finally, the magazine made its welcome return as a weekly newspaper supplement, published -- as it was originally -- each Friday.
The new magazine is considerably thinner than the original or even the various permutations that followed, but it has a decidedly retro look on its cover with a graphic design that recalls LIFE in the 1950s. The topics explored inside also have a classic LIFE ap
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