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 following is from Kostya Kennedy’s essay in LIFE’s new special issue on Winnie-the-Pooh, at 100, available at newsstands and online: HAPPY CHILDREN ARE all alike, the sage might have counseled; each unhappy child is unhappy in his or her own way. A preponderance of enduring children’s stories, those with the fiber to last, say, a ... Read more| 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 Alfred Eisenstaedt, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US & around the World.| LIFE
Some individuals are blessed enough to look beautiful even when they’re having a bad hair day. That was, in a sense, Italy on a grand scale in 1947. The country was coming out of World War II and 18 years of the rule of dictator Benito Mussolini. A LIFE story surveyed the postwar Italian landscape ... Read more| LIFE
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
Choosing shoes that go with your outfit is the subject of many online tutorials. In 1946, some clothes makers experimented with a novel approach to simplify the challenge. They sold shoes and dresses that were literally cut from the same cloth. Here’s how LIFE explained it in an Oct. 1946 issue: The newest looking shoes ... Read more The post Shoes That Really Match the Outfit appeared first on LIFE.| LIFE
The assignment for Dmitri Kessel was a straightforward one: capture images of Italy getting back to normal after World War II. His photos were part of a larger package showing how the Marshall Plan was helping to rebuild Europe. LIFE wrote in its 1948 report that, after the brutal war years, Europe was seeing a ... Read more| LIFE
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
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
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
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
