A copy of Life magazine for 21 May 1945, published in the week following victory in Europe, signed boldly in ink on the lower cover, Winston S Churchill 1945. The date in Churchill's hand anchors the autograph to the very moment the publication commemorates: Churchill at the height of his authority.
The cover carries Yousuf Karsh's celebrated 1941 portrait, later known as The Roaring Lion, taken moments after Churchill's address to the Canadian Parliament. By Karsh's own account, he plucked the cigar from Churchill's mouth just before releasing the shutter, provoking the defiant glare that became one of the enduring images of the Second World War.
Signed copies of this issue are rare, and examples dated contemporaneously in 1945 are particularly desirable. Image, authorship and moment meet in a single object of wartime memory.
Condition: Folio format with original printed wrappers; light wear to edges and surface consistent with age, minor creasing and handling marks, overall very good.
A copy of Life magazine for 21 May 1945, published in the week following victory in Europe, signed boldly in ink on the lower cover, Winston S Churchill 1945. The date in Churchill's hand anchors the autograph to the very moment the publication commemorates: Churchill at the height of his authority.
The cover carries Yousuf Karsh's celebrated 1941 portrait, later known as The Roaring Lion, taken moments after Churchill's address to the Canadian Parliament. By Karsh's own account, he plucked the cigar from Churchill's mouth just before releasing the shutter, provoking the defiant glare that became one of the enduring images of the Second World War.
Signed copies of this issue are rare, and examples dated contemporaneously in 1945 are particularly desirable. Image, authorship and moment meet in a single object of wartime memory.
Condition: Folio format with original printed wrappers; light wear to edges and surface consistent with age, minor creasing and handling marks, overall very good.
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