{"id":5354306,"date":"2019-10-18T19:35:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/?post_type=photographer&#038;p=5354306"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:26:38","slug":"yale-joel","status":"publish","type":"photographer","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/yale-joel\/","title":{"rendered":"Yale Joel"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote id=\"single-block_3c7d830f26222ebf8091bcee0686fa03\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355920 desc=\"\" caption=\"Life photographer Yale Joel standing in front of one of his photographs.  (Photo by Gordon Parks\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18193459\/GettyImages-50401411-e1571427319889-1024x734.jpg\" alt=\"Life photographer Yale Joel standing in front of one of his photographs. (Photo by Gordon Parks\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Life photographer Yale Joel standing in front of one of his photographs.  (Photo by Gordon Parks\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After spending World War II in Italy as an Army combat photographer, Yale Joel (1919-2006) returned to the U.S., and in 1947 joined the staff at LIFE, where he spent the next quarter century working out of LIFE&#8217;S Washington, D.C., Paris, Boston and New York City news bureaus. He was known for his versatility, often traipsing along the East Coast capturing Americana. His forte was the tricky shot that required esoteric equipment or choreographed setups.<\/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_79a7ae2516696cbfebcab4bd613780ba\" class=\"double-image aligncenter\">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355916 desc=\"\" caption=\"Yale University.  (Photo by Yale Joel\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18193144\/GettyImages-50574493-e1571427125347-793x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Yale University. (Photo by Yale Joel\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Yale University.  (Photo by Yale Joel\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355917 desc=\"\" caption=\"Writer Gloria Steinem sitting cross-legged on floor w. sign We Shall Overcome re pop culture  (Photo by Yale Joel\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18193256\/GettyImages-50308643-e1571427193535-810x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Writer Gloria Steinem sitting cross-legged on floor w. sign We Shall Overcome re pop culture (Photo by Yale Joel\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Writer Gloria Steinem sitting cross-legged on floor w. sign We Shall Overcome re pop culture  (Photo by Yale Joel\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_cdb18442b53842be9cf21ed00fc74794\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355918 desc=\"\" caption=\"Photo by Yale Joel\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation\" title=\"The Doors performed at the Fillmore East, 1968.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18193325\/GettyImages-50656263-e1571427221298-1024x701.jpg\" alt=\"Rock group The Doors performing at the Fillmore East. (Photo by Yale Joel\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">The Doors performed at the Fillmore East, 1968.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Photo by Yale Joel\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_5a2c26b970356790a15c80dd82088471\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355919 desc=\"\" caption=\"Playing field and packed stands during Army-Navy game.  (Photo by Yale Joel\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18193350\/GettyImages-50670652-e1571427246100-1024x463.jpg\" alt=\"Playing field and packed stands during Army-Navy game. (Photo by Yale Joel\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Playing field and packed stands during Army-Navy game.  (Photo by Yale Joel\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_65378be1791c4bc1e98e6c569c7c7080\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5384868 desc=\"\" caption=\"Yale Joel\/Life Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"From a 1963 LIFE story on sunglass fashions.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13182402\/114906094-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">From a 1963 LIFE story on sunglass fashions.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Yale Joel\/Life Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_fb2d4b4a138535d241c10851679a752d\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5367277 desc=\"\" caption=\"Yale Joel\/LIFE\/The Picture Collection \" title=\"In 1971 the entire Walt Disney World staff posed for a group portrait in front of Cinderella&#039;s castle prior to the grand opening of the amusement park.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/16182404\/pg.-65-65-1971-Park-staff-before-grand-opening-05873793_5873793-1024x831.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">In 1971 the entire Walt Disney World staff posed for a group portrait in front of Cinderella&#8217;s castle prior to the grand opening of the amusement park.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Yale Joel\/LIFE\/The Picture Collection <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending World War II in Italy as an Army combat photographer, Yale Joel (1919-2006) returned to the U.S., and in 1947 joined the staff at LIFE, where he spent the next quarter century working out of LIFE&#8217;S Washington, D.C., Paris, Boston and New York City news bureaus. He was known for his versatility, often &#8230; <a title=\"Yale Joel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/yale-joel\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5355918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5354306","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 Yale Joel | LIFE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn about Yale Joel, 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\" 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