BIBFRAME Instance

Title

Look magazine photograph collection (Library of Congress)

Identified by

  • Local: 11642869
  • Lccn: 94837687

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Note

  • Look was a biweekly, general interest popular magazine published from March 1937 to October 1971 by Gardner Cowles, Jr., under various company names: Look, Inc. (1937-45); Cowles Magazines (1946-65); and Cowles Communications, Inc. (1965-71). Look began as a tabloid-style magazine that emphasized sports, movie stars, and sensationalism. After World War II, it became more family oriented and included articles on social and political subjects, as well as regular features on personalities, food, fashion, and sports. Look's "golden years" (1954-64) followed improvements in the magazine's design and focus by editor Fleur Cowles, art director Alan Hurlburt, managing editor Dan Mich, and others.
  • Special Collections in the Library of Congress / compiled by Annette Melville. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1980,
  • The cataloged images are by salaried Look staff photographers or by photographers on contract for single assignments. An average of 12 photographers worked on staff as salaried employees in any one year. Many staff photographers worked only for a short time, but several had long careers at Look and produced thousands of images. Heavily represented are: Joel Baldwin, Frank Bauman, Cal Bernstein, Charlotte Brooks, Bob Dierks, Paul Fusco, Milton H. Greene, Jim Hansen, Phillip Harrington, Paul Himmel, Hiro, Douglas Jones, James H. Karales, Douglas Kirkland, Thomas R. Koeniges, Stanley Kubrick, Bob Lerner, Archie Lieberman, Fred J. Maroon, Vincent Nanfra, Marvin E. Newman, Hy Peskin, Harold Rodenbaugh, Arthur Rothstein, Bob Sandberg, John Shearer, Ben Somoroff, Maurice Terrell, Earl Theisen, Stanley Tretick, Michael A. (Tony) Vaccaro, John Vachon, and Robert Vose.
  • Collection title devised by library staff.
  • The collection's Supplementary Archives include annotated issues of Look magazine, photographer logbooks, a subject card index, photos from the magazines Quick and Flair, and published images purchased from wire services and other commercial sources for one-time use in the magazine. Images purchased for one-time use are not being cataloged.
  • Cataloged Look-Jobs are accessible through the Prints and Photographs Division online catalog. The online records provide access by job numbers, photographer's names, story titles, subject headings, and keywords in subject summary notes.

Dimensions

8 x 10 in. or smaller.

Extent

ca. 100,000 photographic prints (ca, 3,500,000 images)

Provision Activity

Publication Statement

1937-1971 (1952-1971 cataloged)

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Has item

http://id.loc.gov/resources/items/11642869

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Admin Metadata

  • Date: 2026-09-30T19:59:34.431335+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 11642869

Admin Metadata

  • Date: 2026-09-30
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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