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Tag: Look Magazine
Revolt of Arab Refugees, 1969
In 1969 issue, Look magazine profiled Fatah and PLO, earlier incarnations of the Palestinian movement. Reporter Christopher Wren and photographer Tom Koeniges spent time with various guerrilla groups in the West Bank.
The President and His Son, 1963
A month before he was assassinated, John F. Kennedy invited Alan Stanley Tretick, a Look photographer, to photograph him and his son.
Czechoslovakia by Prague Photographer, 1969
In late 1969, there appeared in The Sunday Times Magazine in the UK and Look Magazine in the US the photoessays on the brutal crushing of the reformist movement in Czechoslovakia a year prior. The original negatives were smuggled out of Prague to Magnum agency.
Famine in Bihar, 1951
In 1951, Werner Bischof travelled to India to cover on famine and starvation conditions that existed in vast swarths of the country for LIFE.