Photo Essays

Vintage Vegas: Scenes From a Desert Boomtown
Of all the major destination towns in the U.S., Las Vegas might be the most perfectly, unashamedly transparent. No other city in North America, after all — and...

Hitler at 50: Color Photos of a Despot’s Birthday
We do not usually give so much space to the work of men we admire so little. So began a remarkable editor’s note to LIFE’s readers in an April 1970 issue of the...


