If the print version of LIFE was still around...

i think one of the few things i "want" from this movie is a trip to iceland or greenland. looked like a great place.



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Go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!

Yeah,
I always thought I miss that paper, its philosophy and above all the great photo reportage from so many great photographers...

A shame we don't have it anymore.

This movie made me sad for a product that used to exist. LIFE magazine was amazing.

Although it's probably very subtle, I felt that the real star of this movie was Life Magazine and the art and industry of photo journalism. I've always had a love of photography and while I'm not a pro photographer... just a longtime amateur, I've always held a deep appreciation of photo-journalism and the telling of stories through pictures. Life Magazine was devoted to that. The way this film was shot embodied that through and through. The dedication presented by this movie to Life and photo-journalism went beyond the blurb in the credits. It made Life Magazine the central protagonist.

Doubt it. I only buy magazines on rare occasions. The film did, however, make me want a Cinnabon.

LIFE was a great mag.

There was a time when Life magazine, plus a few competitor magazines, were the way that we saw the real world. There was no Internet, and the visual quality of early TV was a joke. Those magazines gradually died out, as everything was being seen first on larger screen, color TV. Life held out the longest among the big-picture, news and celebrity type magazines.

Somehow National Geographic hangs on. (How about that as an alternative?)

Anyway, those big picture magazine have had their thunder stolen by the Internet, and then there is the aversion to killing trees and cluttering up one's home with the pulp.

Maybe with the larger tablets, something like that could work, but in print, not for me.

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The story is king.