{"id":5354319,"date":"2019-10-18T18:35:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T18:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/?post_type=photographer&#038;p=5354319"},"modified":"2019-10-22T19:47:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T19:47:08","slug":"bob-landry","status":"publish","type":"photographer","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/bob-landry\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Landry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bob Landry (1913-c. 1960) was on a cruiser in the Pacific when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and from then on Bob Landry was in one important place after another during that long war. Like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/robert-capa\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robert Capa<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he went in with the first wave at D-Day, but all of Landry&#8217;s film was lost, and his shoes, to boot. Despite braving combat scenes, it was a peacetime picture he took before all that, in the summer of 1941, that he will be remembered for. There are countless versions of the story, but regardless of where it was shot, what it boils down to is that he took that photo of Rita Hayworth\u2014one of the sexiest, most beguiling pieces of film of all time, one that didn&#8217;t need to be on the cover to win the hearts and minds of American soldiers at home and abroad. One civilian above others was amply impressed; Orson Welles eyed Rita in LIFE and resolved to marry the starlet.<\/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_5da08655f7b90\" class=\"double-image aligncenter\">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355816 desc=\"\" caption=\"Paris Fashions.  (Photo by Bob Landry\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18183157\/GettyImages-50493367-e1571423553583-1011x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Paris Fashions. (Photo by Bob Landry\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Paris Fashions.  (Photo by Bob Landry\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355819 desc=\"\" caption=\"Two Frenchmen train guns on a collaborator who kneels against a wooden fence with his hands raised while another man cocks an arm to hit him, Rennes, France, late August 1944. (Photo by Bob Landry\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18183301\/GettyImages-51806552-e1571423602803-827x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Two Frenchmen train guns on a collaborator who kneels against a wooden fence with his hands raised while another man cocks an arm to hit him, Rennes, France, late August 1944. (Photo by Bob Landry\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Two Frenchmen train guns on a collaborator who kneels against a wooden fence with his hands raised while another man cocks an arm to hit him, Rennes, France, late August 1944. (Photo by Bob Landry\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da08657f7b91\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355818 desc=\"\" caption=\"American soldier Elmer Habbs of Delaware resting next to signpost for the French town of Ste. Mere-Eglise as troops advance on the 2nd day of the Allied invasion of Normandy.  (Photo by Bob Landry\/The LIFE Picture Collection via Shutterstock&copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18183240\/GettyImages-50588945-e1571423576699-1024x829.jpg\" alt=\"American soldier Elmer Habbs of Delaware resting next to signpost for the French town of Ste. Mere-Eglise as troops advance on the 2nd day of the Allied invasion of Normandy. (Photo by Bob Landry\/The LIFE Picture Collection via &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">American soldier Elmer Habbs of Delaware resting next to signpost for the French town of Ste. Mere-Eglise as troops advance on the 2nd day of the Allied invasion of Normandy.  (Photo by Bob Landry\/The LIFE Picture Collection via Shutterstock\u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Landry (1913-c. 1960) was on a cruiser in the Pacific when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and from then on Bob Landry was in one important place after another during that long war. Like Robert Capa, he went in with the first wave at D-Day, but all of Landry&#8217;s film was lost, and his &#8230; <a title=\"Bob Landry\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/bob-landry\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5355822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5354319","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 Bob Landry | LIFE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn about Bob Landry, 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\/bob-landry\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Photography of Bob Landry | LIFE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Learn about Bob Landry, 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\/bob-landry\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"LIFE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-10-22T19:47:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18183441\/GettyImages-50483712-e1571423701449.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"984\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/bob-landry\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/bob-landry\/\",\"name\":\"The Photography of Bob Landry | LIFE\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/bob-landry\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/bob-landry\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18183441\/GettyImages-50483712-e1571423701449.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-18T18:35:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-10-22T19:47:08+00:00\",\"description\":\"Learn about Bob Landry, 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\/bob-landry\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/bob-landry\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/bob-landry\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18183441\/GettyImages-50483712-e1571423701449.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18183441\/GettyImages-50483712-e1571423701449.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":984,\"caption\":\"US Army nurses arriving in the Middle East. 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