Life’ Magazine Photographer Martha Holmes

Trivia
on January 14, 2007

Louisville native Martha Holmes, a Life magazine photographer, was known for her photos of famous people, including painter Jackson Pollock and film stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Her 1949 photo of Pollock, dangling a cigarette from his lips, became a U.S. postage stamp, minus the cigarette.

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