Explore the world one picture at a time with these beautiful and inspiring pictures from across the globe - near and far, popular and unknown.| LIFE
America has a lot going for it, and the ability to feed itself would be at the top of the list. The country is rich in arable farmland. This important truth is one that suffuses this collection of harvest-time photos taken during LIFE’s original run from 1936 to 1972. The crops being harvested in these ... Read more| LIFE
For a few weeks in 1963, Americans could see the Mona Lisa without having to go to the Louvre. That’s because the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece crossed the Atlantic ocean by boat for a one-of-a-kind visit to the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This ... Read more| LIFE
See photographs and read stories about global icons - the actors, athletes, politicians, and community members that make our world come to life.| LIFE
Elsa Martinelli had three things going for her. That was the analysis of LIFE magazine when she was introduced to readers on the cover of a 1957 issue as “a triple-threat Italian beauty.” One of her chief assets was her was looks, wrote LIFE. Another was her flair for fashion. The third was her acting ... Read more| LIFE
Learn about Gjon Mili, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US & around the World.| LIFE
Learn about George Silk, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US & around the World.| LIFE
Technically brilliant pictures that fiddle with moments, junctures, sequences–and offer a playful commentary on the slippery nature of Time.| LIFE
The archetype of the powerful fashion editor was cemented in popular culture by the book and subsequent movie The Devil Wears Prada, which featured a character who was named Miranda Priestly but was inspired by legendary Vogue editor Anna Wintour. While none of her former assistants wrote thinly veiled novels about her, Carmel Snow was ... Read more The post The Devil You Don’t Know: Fashion Editor Carmel Snow appeared first on LIFE.| LIFE
One of the most famous lines in the 1950 cinema classic Sunset Boulevard is uttered by actress Gloria Swanson, who starred as former silent film star Norma Desmond. When the male lead, played by William Holden, meets her and recognizes her as a former movie queen, he comments, “You used to be big.” She responds, ... Read more The post When the Movies Got Smaller appeared first on LIFE.| LIFE
After the hard lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic finally loosened up, many people—and especially teenagers who had their school years interrupted—talked about wanting to make up for lost time. The phrase “hot girl summer” may have originated in 2019 with a song by Megan Thee Stallion, but it came up again frequently when vaccines became ... Read more The post Proper Teenagers in a Post-War World appeared first on LIFE.| LIFE
In 1941 Ted Williams, 22, was the center of attention in the baseball world as he pursued a .400 batting average, which was at the time a rare feat (instead of impossible, as it has seemingly become). The Red Sox outfielder famously pursued the goal that year in a manner which affirmed not only his ... Read more| 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
Deconstructing W. Eugene Smith's famous shot of Harry Truman holding aloft the 'Dewey Defeats Truman' copy of the Chicago Tribune.| 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
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