{"id":5354296,"date":"2019-10-18T20:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/?post_type=photographer&#038;p=5354296"},"modified":"2019-10-18T20:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:23:03","slug":"marie-hansen","status":"publish","type":"photographer","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/marie-hansen\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie Hansen"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da0816f216a4\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355967 desc=\"\" caption=\"Multiple exposure photograph of LIFE photographer Marie Hansen handling a camera, running &amp;amp; crouching as she would do on assignment.  (Photo by Gjon Mili\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18202141\/GettyImages-50377964-e1571430117101-1024x761.jpg\" alt=\"Multiple exposure photograph of LIFE photographer Marie Hansen handling a camera, running &amp;amp; crouching as she would do on assignment. (Photo by Gjon Mili\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Multiple exposure photograph of LIFE photographer Marie Hansen handling a camera, running &amp; crouching as she would do on assignment.  (Photo by Gjon Mili\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LIFE&#8217;S third female staff photographer, Marie Hansen (c. 1918-1969) covered the White House, politics and Hollywood. MGM producer Joe Pasternak was so taken with her that he wanted to make a movie based on her \u2018exotic\u2019 identity: the woman photojournalist. Pasternak persuaded Hansen to take a screen test in which she smooched with film star Walter Pidgeon. However, she turned down a movie studio contract because she felt more comfortable on the other side of the lens.<\/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_5da08182216a5\" class=\"double-image aligncenter\">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355964 desc=\"\" caption=\"Congressmen posing on the front steps of the Capitol Building.  (Photo by Marie Hansen\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18202003\/GettyImages-50484068-e1571430020969-990x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Congressmen posing on the front steps of the Capitol Building. (Photo by Marie Hansen\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Congressmen posing on the front steps of the Capitol Building.  (Photo by Marie Hansen\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355965 desc=\"\" caption=\"Children playing on the beach, 1946.  (Photo by Marie Hansen\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18202027\/GettyImages-50862847-e1571430058323-817x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Children playing on the beach, 1946. (Photo by Marie Hansen\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Children playing on the beach, 1946.  (Photo by Marie Hansen\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_5daa1eaf08496\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355968 desc=\"\" caption=\"Huge crowd gathered in the surf and amp; at the beach in front of Coney Island Amusement Park.  (Photo by Marie Hansen\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18202220\/GettyImages-50650425-e1571430164667-975x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Huge crowd gathered in the surf and amp; at the beach in front of Coney Island Amusement Park. (Photo by Marie Hansen\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Huge crowd gathered in the surf and amp; at the beach in front of Coney Island Amusement Park.  (Photo by Marie Hansen\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIFE&#8217;S third female staff photographer, Marie Hansen (c. 1918-1969) covered the White House, politics and Hollywood. MGM producer Joe Pasternak was so taken with her that he wanted to make a movie based on her \u2018exotic\u2019 identity: the woman photojournalist. Pasternak persuaded Hansen to take a screen test in which she smooched with film star &#8230; <a title=\"Marie Hansen\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/marie-hansen\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5355968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5354296","photographer","type-photographer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Photography of Marie Hansen | LIFE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn about Marie Hansen, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US &amp; around the World.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/marie-hansen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Photography of Marie Hansen | LIFE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Learn about Marie Hansen, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US &amp; around the World.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/marie-hansen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"LIFE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-10-18T20:23:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18202220\/GettyImages-50650425-e1571430164667.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"975\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/marie-hansen\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/marie-hansen\/\",\"name\":\"The Photography of Marie Hansen | LIFE\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/marie-hansen\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/marie-hansen\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18202220\/GettyImages-50650425-e1571430164667.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-18T20:23:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-10-18T20:23:03+00:00\",\"description\":\"Learn about Marie Hansen, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US & around the World.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/marie-hansen\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/marie-hansen\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/marie-hansen\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18202220\/GettyImages-50650425-e1571430164667.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18202220\/GettyImages-50650425-e1571430164667.jpg\",\"width\":975,\"height\":1024,\"caption\":\"Huge crowd gathered in the surf and amp; at the beach in front of Coney Island Amusement Park. 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