Published issues of Look, useful for locating published images and for comparison to unpublished material.
Look magazine picture research files (Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1995:031) About 215,000 photographs, ca. 1935-1971, acquired from Columbia University. The photographs were gathered (not made) by Look, apparently for research purposes. They include wire service and other commercial photographs of world news events. The magazine gave the file to Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1972. The material has not been organized. Special arrangements are required to consult it (see Access to Unprocessed Materials).
Approximately 5,500 items from various stages of his career, including his Look work. Special arrangements are required to consult this material (see Access to Unprocessed Materials).
Access to bound issues of Look (Call number: AP2 .L79) and other Look/Cowles Communications publications.
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During the 1940s and 1950s Look sent material relating to New York City to the Museum of the City of New York. Also includes substantial holdings of Stanley Kubrick photos made for Look.
Papers of Merl Armitage, at one time, president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and art director of Quick and Look Magazine. Collection Dates: 1932-1964. 2.5 linear ft.
"Look Magazine Records, 1948-1966." (From RLG Archival Resources entry, consulted 6/2004): "Records and correspondence of one of America's leading photo journalistic periodicals, Included are correspondence, financial records, legal files, minutes, reports, speech files, story proposals, interbureau communications, personnel records, in-house publications and production reports, and other documents. Routine correspondence makes up roughly half of the collection."
Commercial joint venture between Google and LIFE offering images from Life magazine.
Records of the U.S. Information Agency (Record Group 306). Includes photographs used in USIA-issued magazines, including America Illustrated, Topic, and Dialogue. In some cases, also includes issues of the magazines themselves.
Commercial site offering highlights from Time and Life magazines.
The Prints and Photographs Division maintains a list of public institutions in the United States and Canada that hold newspaper photograph morgues: Newspaper Photograph Morgues.
Note: Library of Congress call numbers and links to online catalog records have been provided for those items found in the LC Online Catalog. Staff have looked at items with annotations, unless otherwise noted.
Cooperman, Gary S. "A historical study of Look magazine and its concept of photojournalism." Thesis (M.A.), University of Missouri--Columbia, 1966.
Lively memoir with discussion of Look's early years and the individuals who influenced the magazine's editorial style.
Touches briefly on Look and its circulation statistics, in the context of discussing the development of American picture magazines.
Memoir by a Look editor.
"Look Magazine Photograph Collection" in American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States: memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awpnp6/look_coll.html.
George Eastman House. Arthur Rothstein: 200 photographs. [A George Eastman House exhibition, organized with the cooperation of Look magazine]. Rochester, N.Y: 1956.
"Rushes." Sight & Sound 11 (Feb 2001): 4.
Schonauer, David. "Lost Shots." American Photo 10 (Nov./Dec. 1999): 20.
Rothstein gives tips about equipment and common photographic blunders from the point of view of his position as Technical Director of Photography at Look.
Rothstein, Arthur. "When Look magazine photographers take a trip." U.S. Camera 31 (May 1968):16- .
Thiesen's tips for successful photography, with comments about photographers' practices in shooting stories for Look.
Apollo 8, voyage to the moon : the dramatic story of man's greatest adventure. New York: Cowles Communications, 1969.
Apollo 11: on the moon. New York: Cowles Communications, 1969.
The Blacks & the whites. Des Moines: Look, 1969.
Cowles Magazines, Inc. Welcome to Look. Des Moines, Iowa: Cowles Magazines, Inc, 1958.
157 Look photographs selected in connection with a traveling exhibit, "Look at America," produced cooperatively by the American Federation of Arts and Look.
Discussion of qualities of successful picture stories, with examples drawn from Look. Based on a series of lectures given in 1944 at the Washington Square Writing Center.
National Municipal League. All-America cities: Look Magazine and the National Municipal League present for 1968. Look, 1969.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Parenthood, U.S.A., reprinted from a series of picture articles originally published by Look magazine. New York: Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 1942.
Rosten, Leo C. They made our world: a selection from the Look magazine series. New York: Cowles Communications, 1965.
Spence, Hartzell. The story of America's religions. Published in co-operation with the editors of Look magazine. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960. LC Call number: BR516.5 .S7 1960 [view catalog record].
Alfred Politz Research, Inc. The audiences of nine magazines, their size and characteristics: Collier's, Life, Look, Saturday evening post, Better homes & gardens, Good housekeeping, Ladies' home journal, McCall's, Woman's home companion. New York: 1955.
Alfred Politz Research, Inc, Alfred Politz Research, Inc, and Audiences of nine magazines, 1958. Audiences reached through magazine combinations, 1958: Life, Look, Saturday evening post, Time, Better homes & gardens, Good housekeeping, Ladies' home journal, McCall's, Reader's digest. New York: 1958.
Alfred Politz Research, Inc. Survey of U.S. markets, 1956; a national survey sponsored by Look Magazine. New York: 1956.
American Institute of Public Opinion. How America feels as we enter the sixties, a national study conducted by George Gallup's Institute of Public Opinion for Look Magazine. New York: 1961.
American Institute of Public Opinion. The mood of America, 1965; a national study. New York: Cowles Magazine and Broadcasting, 1965.
Crossley, Inc, and Look. National study of magazine audience 1952, report. N.Y: Cowles Magazine, Inc, 1952.
Crossley, Inc. National study of magazine audiences, 1952; nine magazines, conducted for Look Magazine. Working manual. New York: Cowles, 1952.
Look audience, 1962 : a national study. United States: Cowles Magazines and Broadcasting, 1962.