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“Staff photographers, freelancers and everyone who owned a camera, we're all hoping to get published in LIFE. It was like getting one week of fame instead of the 15 minutes Andy Warhol talked about.” ~ Allan Grant Allan Grant, was a well known staff photographer at LIFE during the mid 20th century. He photographed everything and everyone from Marilyn Monroe, to atomic tests, to Marina Oswald just a few hours after her husband shot President Kennedy. A true witness to the American story. It is his ability to also capture the simple uplifting moments of American life that make him such a great American photographer and allow great images like this to be created.