Topic: LIFE magazine

Iconic Images from the Most Valuable Camera in the History of Photography

Associated Press

The old saying goes that a picture is worth a thousand words, but does that make a camera worth over 2 million bucks? It does for this one, the favorite camera of LIFE magazine photographer David Douglas Duncan, known for his photos of Vietnam and Picasso.

By Erik Hayden

Nov 16, 2011

Ansel Adams Didn't Like His Job Either

Life magazine, the sadly-not-in-print American photo-magazine that still offers amazing online galleries, has published a very clickable 20 Worst Covers slideshow: and we were surprised to see that one those covers was listed as being photographed by younger Ansel Adams. 

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