Photo Essays
Marian Anderson and the Concert That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
“A voice like yours is heard only once in a hundred years.” — Arturo Toscanini to the American contralto Marian Anderson Born in Philadelphia in 1897, Marian...
The Day Einstein Died: A Photographer’s Story
Albert Einstein, whose theories exploded and reshaped our ideas of how the universe works, died on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was 76. His funeral and...
Einstein’s Office: Genius in the Details
The death of a public figure of Albert Einstein’s stature is the sort of event that, literally and figuratively, stops the presses. No scientist has been more...
LIFE Behind the Picture: Gandhi and his Spinning Wheel, 1946
Very few public leaders of the 20th century were — and remain today — as instantly recognizable to quite literally billions of people around the globe as...
LIFE in 2012: The Year in 12 Galleries
What do the Empire State Building, Albert Einstein, Hillary Clinton, Woody Guthrie and druggy Japanese teenagers have in common? Well … nothing, really. Or...
Albert Einstein: 1879-1955
A photographic tour of the life and times of Albert Einstein
The Science Teacher You Wish You Had
A jarring but necessary revelation that comes to all scientists, eventually, is that the daily practice and pursuit of knowledge isn’t the endless series of...
LIFE at Home With Marilyn Monroe, 1953
When Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed Marilyn Monroe at her Hollywood home in 1953, the 54-year-old LIFE staffer and the 26-year-old actress were — on the face of...
