A Look Back at LIFE Magazine's 'Most Moving' Photo Essay

Thanks to Ben Stiller‘s remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which premieres this weekend at the New York Film Festival, we’re going to be hearing a lot more than usual about LIFE magazine. In the Twentieth Century Fox film, Stiller plays a photo editor at the publication, which ceased print publication in the spring of 2007.

Right on schedule, LIFE takes a look back at a May 1948 photo spread by Leonard McCombe that it deems to be the most moving and surprising in the publication’s history.

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