2 Genuine Life Magazine 1948 Leonard McCombe Silver Gelatin 11 "x 14" Photos. Both dated April 8, 1948 and stamped Life Photo by Leonard McCombe. One is marked Life Print George J Karas and the other Life Print Al Asnis. McCombe is a famous Life Magazine photographer and Asnis is also fairly well known, Karas has less information available but I did find he was one of the authors of a Time Life Photography book. Both essentially fine condition with some normal age wear - see my 12 pics. Guaranteed genuine original McCombe Life Magazine original photographs from 1948, not later reproductions or prints. I could not find the identity of the men in the photos. 

Leonard McCombe is a Manx-born war photographer and photojournalist who worked for Picture Post and Life. Wikipedia
Born: June 1, 1923 (age 98 years), Isle of Man
Epithet: Manx born photographer for Picture Post and Life Magazine (1923- )
Leonard McCombe was the son of Mr and Mrs James McCombe who ran The Strand Cafe in Port Erin. He attended the Port Erin Wesleyan School in Rushen before studying at The Douglas High School for Boys. In 1939 he was at the scene when Leslie's Pavilion in Port Erin burnt to the ground and captured the moment with his camera. The images appeared on the front page of the Isle of Man Examiner in August. Later The Examiner claimed to have launched his career as a professional photographer! At the age of 16 Leonard left school and became the official photographer for the Rushen Internment Camp.
In 1943 he left the Island and became a photographer for Picture Post where he went on many assignments to France and Germany to record the front line. In 1948 the results of his work were published in Germany by Atlantis Verlag "Menschen Eileiden Geschichte" (Humans Suffering History") subtitled "The Face of Europe from the Thames up to Weichsel 1943-1946".
McCombe moved to America in 1945 and took up citizenship in 1953 while working as a photographer for Life Magazine. He took many intriguing photographs documenting 1950-60s America including the Kennedys. One of his most influential assignments involved working with Texan cowboys. Following the publication of his images in Life Magazine the advertising company for Philip Morris Tobacco selected one of McCombe's cowboy images to re-brand the Marlboro cigarette and so the Marlboro cowboy was born.