Nina Leen was one of the first women photographers at Life Magazine. Born in Russia, she brought an outsider's perspective to her photojournalism, at a time when American life was experiencing a dramatic post-war shift in reality. Family life, working women, and the secret lives of teenagers became topics of fascination in the decidedly self-aware mid-century consciousness via magazines like Life, and Leen captures the perspective of women beautifully and objectively.
Women Sitting and Reading Under Hairdryers at Rockefeller Center "Pamper Club" 1952
Drive-In Car Hop Serves Girls Their Refreshments, California, 1945
Housewife With a Week's Work, 1947
Career Girl, Cooking in Kitchen, 1950
Pay In Trade Taken by High School Music Store Worker, Spending Salary on Records, 1954
Teenage Girls Enjoying Milkshakes at Drive In Restaurant, 1957
Cornell University Home Economics Students Learn Different Elements of Irons and Proper Maintenance, 1952
Woman Shopping at Takashimaya's Department Store
Bride-To-Be and Her Fiance Carrying Home All The Gifts She Received At Her Bridal Shower
Tourists Viewing NYC From Observation Room of Empire State Building
Young Couples at Formal Dance
Teenage Girl Talking on the Telephone
Teenage Girls Wearing Blue Jeans Hang Out Eating and Drinking Cokes, De Moines, Iowa, 1944
Woman Dusting Off Her Television Set
Woman Hanging the Laundry Out to Dry
Woman Taking a Pill Out of a Bottle
Working Woman Sitting At Her Typewriter and Talking on the Telephone
Smiling Young Woman Surrounded By Household Objects
Working Mother Greeting Her Son After a Full Day Spent In Child Care
Housewife M.M. Spends 100 Hours a Week Caring for Her Kids, 1947
Insurance Broker CH's Wife Bringing Children to Train Station to Wait for His Arrival
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