“To see life to see the world to eyewitness great events to watch the faces of the poor and the gestures of the proud to see strange things - machines, armies, multitudes, shadows in the jungle and on the moon to see man’s work - his paintings, towers and discoveries to see things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls and within rooms, things dangerous to come to the women that men love and many children to see and to take pleasure in seeing to see and be amazed to see and be instructed Thus to see, and to be shown, is now the will and new expectancy of half of humankind.
The prolific publisher wrote a prospectus for Life (then titled The Show-Book of the World) with poet Archibald MacLeish, and it’s the perfect way to set the mood for our gallery of the magazine’s best cover images. The Week Magazine Escape your echo chamber with The Week and get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. He wanted people to live it through stunning photographs. Publisher Henry Luce was already editor-in-chief of Time and wanted to create a magazine that didn’t just talk about the news. This week, 76 years ago, Life magazine published its first issue of the pictorial journal since folding as a weekly humor publication during the Great Depression.
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