Nobody knows how old the Russian-born photographer Nina Leen was when she died, in 1995. She lived in Germany, Italy, and Switzerland before moving to the U.S., where she became one of LIFE magazine’s first female photographers, in the nineteen-forties. She shot countless assignments for the magazine, including more than fifty cover stories, and produced fifteen photo books. Her most well-known subjects were American women and animals. Leen found tension in the real world, and her subjects weren’t actors, they were just everyday people living out their lives.
Below is a +/- 5% acc. colorization of ‘Summer 1950’

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Florida in April 1950 by Nina Leen.

A 16x speed colorization of a LIFE classic taken by photographer Nina Leen. Accuracy is +/- 5%

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Portrait of photographer Nina Leen in 1949

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