Life, 1928-09-14 · page 37 of 40
Life — September 14, 1928 — page 37: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains two distinct ads: **Top section:** A Graflex camera advertisement highlighting the camera's ability to capture fast-action photography ("a thousandth of a second, then gone forever"), with an image of a polo player on horseback demonstrating action photography. **Bottom section:** A subscription promotion for *Life* magazine itself, listing the publication's regular contributors and cartoon features (including "Little Dramas Without Words" by Gluyas Williams, cartoons by Fred Cooper and Charles Sykes, and work by illustrators like John Held Jr.). The ad emphasizes *Life's* variety of humorous and pointed pictorial content, encouraging readers to subscribe for 52 issues for five dollars. The page reflects *Life's* identity as a **humor and satire magazine** built on visual content—cartoons, illustrations, and photographs—rather than containing specific political commentary itself.
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LIFE GRAFLEX ~=the one camera for sach pictures REAT SPURT of magnificent action ...a thousandth of a second, then gone forever. Graflex...the one camera for “difficult” pictures—with it they cease to be difficult. 2 4 Graflex is the one camera which shows the action in the finder exactly as on the negative, and all guess work is eliminated in the focusing. «4 ee oe ‘There's a Graflex priced within reach of every- body. Series "B"—314" x 414°— speed up to 1 1000 second—880. Other models 885 to 8375. Featured by A Good Dealer Everywhere che [ pa, FOLMER GRAFLEN OURP. ROCHESTER. NEW YORK PICTURES — 12 12 of "The Swing ihoul We layas Willie PICTURES— PICTURES —everywhere you look in LIFE you see pictures—fifteen hundred of them in a year, not counting the little ones. Big pictures and little pictures. Funny pictures and pictures that make you stop and think. Pictures with a laugh and pictures with a point. Little Dramas Without Words, by Gluyas Williams. Cuckoo cartoons by Fred Cooper. And far from cuckoo cartoons by Charles Sykes. Pictures by Perey Crosby, John Held, Jr., Russell Patterson, Jolin LaGatta, R. V. Culter, Miguel Covarrubias, Alice Harvey, James House, Jr., Ed Graham, I. Klein, J. Conacher, Don Herold, Haenigsen, and others. For the funniest and the pointed-est humorous pic- tures—and for dozens of other features—you should see LIFE every week .... Obey that impulse! LIFE 598 Madison Ave., New York City Enclosed is five dollars. Please send 52 issues of Life to: comicbooks.com