{"id":5354288,"date":"2019-10-18T15:23:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/?post_type=photographer&#038;p=5354288"},"modified":"2019-10-18T15:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:23:35","slug":"allan-grant","status":"publish","type":"photographer","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/allan-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Allan Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da0803b194b2\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355458 desc=\"Asset ID: 1270626. \" caption=\"Portrait of Allan Grant with his camera. (Photo by Allan Grant\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18152248\/1270626-e1571412168513.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Allan Grant with his camera. (Photo by Allan Grant\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation).\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Portrait of Allan Grant with his camera. (Photo by Allan Grant\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If Norman Rockwell had used a camera instead of a paintbrush, his artistry might have looked something like Allan Grant&#8217;s. Grant (1919-2008) specialized in capturing the lighthearted side of American life, and his work often appeared in LIFE&#8217;S Speaking of Pictures section, a repository for humorous or otherwise striking images. If his reputation was as the man responsible for laughs, he also made pictures that were anything but funny: a bewildered Marina Oswald shortly after her husband had shot President Kennedy, a grim Marilyn Monroe just before she died. Grant had aspired to be an aeronautical engineer\u2014he loved photographing aircraft\u2014but never regretted his choices, nor where he wound up. &#8220;Staff photographers, freelancers and everyone who owned a camera,&#8221; he said, &#8220;were all hoping to get published in LIFE. It was like getting one week of fame instead of the 15 minutes Andy Warhol talked about.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adapted from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-LIFE-Photographers-Editors\/dp\/0316097934\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EH15RRHPZHFO&amp;keywords=the+great+life+photographers&amp;qid=1570115481&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=the+great+life+photogr%2Caps%2C142&amp;sr=8-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Great LIFE Photographers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote id=\"double-block_5da0804a194b3\" class=\"double-image aligncenter\">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355460 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051122. \" caption=\"Former Confederate soldier John Salling sitting on a porch with some friends. (Photo by Allan Grant\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18150553\/Veteran_IR-e1571411152831-749x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Former Confederate soldier John Salling sitting on a porch with some friends. (Photo by Allan Grant\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation).\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Former Confederate soldier John Salling sitting on a porch with some friends. (Photo by Allan Grant\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355473 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051119. \" caption=\"Acrobat and actor, Russ Tamblyn doing a flip on the sidewalk with starlet Venetia Stevenson. (Photo by Allan Grant\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18150920\/Flip_IC-e1571411360147.jpg\" alt=\"Acrobat and actor, Russ Tamblyn doing a flip on the sidewalk with starlet Venetia Stevenson. (Photo by Allan Grant\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation).\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Acrobat and actor, Russ Tamblyn doing a flip on the sidewalk with starlet Venetia Stevenson. (Photo by Allan Grant\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da0804c194b4\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355475 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051120. \" caption=\"Bikini clad actress Jayne Mansfield posing with shapely bottles floating around her in her pool. (Photo by Allan Grant\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18151106\/Grant_B_IC4-e1571411466935-700x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Bikini clad actress Jayne Mansfield posing with shapely bottles floating around her in her pool. (Photo by Allan Grant\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation).\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Bikini clad actress Jayne Mansfield posing with shapely bottles floating around her in her pool. (Photo by Allan Grant\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Norman Rockwell had used a camera instead of a paintbrush, his artistry might have looked something like Allan Grant&#8217;s. Grant (1919-2008) specialized in capturing the lighthearted side of American life, and his work often appeared in LIFE&#8217;S Speaking of Pictures section, a repository for humorous or otherwise striking images. 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