{"id":7715,"date":"2017-02-16T09:30:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T13:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=7715"},"modified":"2017-02-13T15:06:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T19:06:29","slug":"7715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/7715\/","title":{"rendered":"An eye with a Brain!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7716\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LIFE-193809.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7716\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7716\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LIFE-193809-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ad from LIFE Magazine, September 19, 1938. Click on it to see it larger.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. I\u00a0remember <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Life_(magazine)\">LIFE magazine<\/a> as a Saturday afternoon read in the barbershop as I waited for my turn under Nelson MaGee&#8217;s sharp scissors and clippers. It was founded in 1883 as an American version of England&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Punch_(magazine)\"><em>Punch<\/em><\/a>. The version most of us remember is Henry Luce&#8217;s big brash photojournalism magazine boldly touting American ideals and principles.<\/p>\n<p>It was a wonderful magazine, full of black and white pictures and interesting bits of text and cut lines that clarified the photographs. When I looked at it, the magazine (and I) was about a decade old.<\/p>\n<p>My friend George Dunbar found this interesting two page spread LIFE published in their September 19, 1938 issue. The revitalized LIFE had published as a photojournalism magazine for three years by then and felt a need to educate its readers about photography and its importance in illustrating the world of the day to its readers not just as entertainment but as serious news too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. I\u00a0remember LIFE magazine as a Saturday afternoon read in the barbershop as I waited for my turn under Nelson MaGee&#8217;s sharp scissors and clippers. It was founded in 1883 as an American version of England&#8217;s Punch. The version most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/7715\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,209,705],"tags":[398,940,425,102,224,939],"class_list":["post-7715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","category-miscellaneous","category-photos","tag-camera","tag-henry-luce","tag-life","tag-magazine","tag-photojournalism","tag-punch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7715"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7722,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions\/7722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}