LIFE: Legends: The Century's Most Unforgettable Faces
Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Sat, 22 Nov 1997 13:27:12 -0800
Okay, I found it...
The book is called LIFE: Legends: The Century's Most Unforgettable
Faces. Nice softcover bound thing with a radiant picture of Marlene
Dietrich on the cover that you should be able to find at any
comprehensive newsstand or decent bookstore. It's $9.95 and the picture
of JDS does sound like the one that you were referring to, Tim. The
photo credit goes to Ted Russell from Sygma, 1961. The caption for the
picture is by Leslie Fiedler who says: "Salinger of course speaks for
the cleanest, politest, best-dressed, best-fed and best-read among the
disaffected (and who is not disaffected?) young."
Looking at the pic again my mind's eye had forgotten that there is a
bloody big branch right by the aperture which does give it sort of a
stalkers quality to it. And he doesn't look happy so much as he just
looks very deep in thought. Still, for anyone who hasn't seen it it's
well worth finding.
By the way, if you have trouble finding it, I noticed on the back of the
book that it says "Display until 9/29/97" so I would assume that LIFE
comes out with these oversize glossy picture books on a fairly
periodical basis. Still, I'm sure only the most anal newsstand agents
would have whisked the volume away by now if it weren't sold yet,
depending on the relationship they have with their distributor. (Yeah, I
used to work in a bookshop.)
Good luck everyone!
Malcs