
Cover illustration for “Alimony” written by Faith Baldwin, 1949

A loved one is swept off her feet by a returning GI in the aptly named town of New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1945.

Stanley Kubrick, “Life and Love on the New York City Subway (Couple Sleeping on a Subway)” (1946)/Courtesy collections of the Museum of the City of New York.

Couple watching performance in a “flea circus”. Photographed by Rene Burri, New York c, 1959 (x)

Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio photographed by John Vachon in Canada, on location for the filming of River of No Return, 1953

Sailor on shore leave standing on pier with a young woman, 1937 (x)

Sailor on shore leave sitting at a soda fountain with young woman. San Diego, 1937 (x)

Teenage couple on Hudson street New York, 1963. Photographed by Diane Arbus. (x)