The Photography of Dimitri Kessel | LIFE
Learn about Dimitri Kessel, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US & around the World.| LIFE
Learn about Dimitri Kessel, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US & around the World.| LIFE
Experience LIFE's visual record of the 20th century by exploring the most iconic photographs from one of the most famous private photo collections in the world.| LIFE
The trail that begins in Brooklyn and leads to an ashram in the Far East was most famously travelled by author Elizabeth Gilbert, who wrote about it in her wildly popular book Eat, Pray Love. But she was of course not the first to take that journey, as Americans have been finding appeal in the ... Read more| LIFE
The 2025 summer blockbuster movie F1, starring Brad Pitt, includes several races in Europe, which has a grand history with auto racing. During the heyday of LIFE magazine’s original run racing was pretty much the top sport on the continent, and in 1953 the magazine sent staff photographer Frank Scherschel to cover one of its ... Read more| LIFE
Having proven himself a master metropolitan portraitist with his pictures of New York in the '40s and '50s, Feininger turned his attention to other realms in more than 340 assignments for LIFE through the years.| LIFE
In 1946, in that moment after World War II when people were looking to get back on the road, LIFE photographer Andreas Feininger documented one of the most beautiful highways in North America. He headed to Canada and travelled the Icefields Parkway, which hugs the Continental Divide as it goes through Banff National Park and ... Read more| LIFE
Today the name “Gidget” brings to mind a series of films and a TV show about a plucky teenage surfer girl. But did you know that Gidget was, in fact, a real person? Her name was Kathy Kohner, who as a teenager was given her now-famous nickname by the surfer boys at the beach in ... Read more| LIFE
In 1939 LIFE devoted a themed issue to the future of America, and it led off its reporting with a big piece on the Pacific Northwest, which the magazine predicted would be an engine of of growth as the country looked to move past the Great Depression. The region was described by hopefuls as “the ... Read more| LIFE
