PRESS RELEASE
LIFE: The Platinum Anniversary Exhibition
Oct 12 – Nov 12, 2006
70 Years of Extraordinary Photography
Over fifty photographs, including many one-of-a-kind vintage prints, by the legendary LIFE Magazine photographers.
CLEVELAND – The Contessa Gallery at Legacy Village announces the upcoming opening of LIFE: The Platinum Anniversary Exhibition, celebrating the iconic photographs that chronicled the stories of generations. The images of our culture, our world, sport, science and nature, war and peace, and even Hollywood will be on view and for sale.
"To see life ... to see the world; to eyewitness great events.” These words by the founding editor and publisher Henry R. Luce became the foundation for what would become America’s first and most important picture magazine. More than 2,100 issues of LIFE Magazine – featuring tens of thousands of images – have been published since the first issue premiered on November 23, 1936. Today we celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the magazine by bringing collectors and admirers some of the most recognizable images of the century that cover everything from the intimate drama of daily life to the spectacle of world events.
The Contessa Gallery is proud to have a special guest speaker for the opening receptions, Richard B. Stolley. Stolley is Senior Editorial Advisor of Time Inc., which with its affiliates publishes 130 magazines throughout the world, with a readership of more than 120 million. In the course of his astonishing career Stolley has been a reporter, writer, bureau chief, senior editor and managing editor at Time Inc. since 1953. In 1973 Stolley became the founding managing editor of People, joining the magazine in its planning stages, and remained in that position for eight years. Described as the most successful magazine in publishing history, People now has a weekly circulation of 3,600,000. In 1996, Richard B. Stolley was named to the American Society of Magazine Editors newly inaugurated Hall of Fame. In 1997, he received the Henry Johnson Fisher Award for Lifetime Achievement in magazines, the most prestigious award the industry bestows, from the Magazine Publishers of America.