Photo Essays

Photographer Spotlight: Andreas Feininger
If one had to choose a single photographer whose work would serve as a visual biography of New York City in its postwar Golden Age — when Gotham became, in a...

LIFE With Dem Bums: Spring Training at Dodgertown, 1948
With the exception of that team from the Bronx and, perhaps, the Red Sox, no baseball franchise in history is as storied as the Dodgers — especially the...

Raid on a Polygamist Town: Arizona, 1953
Just before dawn on July 26, 1953, Arizona law enforcement launched what has since become known as the Short Creek raid: the arrest of men and women in an...

After Pearl Harbor: LIFE in the Pacific and on the Homefront
President Franklin Roosevelt declared December 7, 1941 — when Japan launched more than 350 fighters, bombers, and torpedo planes against the U.S. naval base at...

Going Deep: LIFE at the Grand Canyon
A few years ago, public television in the United States aired a marvelous, six-episode Ken Burns documentary called The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The...

Mourning the Victims of the Arizona Shooting
The nation grieves the murders of six people after the assassination attempt on Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords

Wildfires Burn in New Mexico and Arizona
Firefighters battle flames across the Arizona border into New Mexico

"Bush to Arizona: ""Hang in There"""
Fires in Arizona and California consume thousands of acres and displace hundreds of people

Immigration Detention in Arizona
Photographer John Moore documents the detention and incarceration of undocumented aliens in the wake of the April 2010 passage of the Support Our Law Enforcement...

John McCain's Big Night
The Senator from Arizona accepts his party's nomination with a pledge to end partisan rancor.

Gabby Giffords Bids Congress Farewell
On the eve of her resignation, the Arizona Representative attends President Obama's State of the Union address

Photos: A Murder by the Border
For the people who live along the Arizona Mexico divide, a March 2010 murder reverberates. Photographs by Christopher Morris / VII for TIME

Sarah Palin and the Tea Party
The former Republican vice-presidential nominee stumps for John McCain in Arizona and speaks at a national Tea Party rally in Nevada

Photos: The Great Phoenix Dust Storm
The airport shuts down as a rolling dust storm sweeps through Arizona

"Smart Sponges" Purify Stormwater
A Scottsdale, Arizona company finds a market for its "Smart Sponges", chemically-engineered filters that effectively — and cheaply — purify storm-water runoff

President Obama Goes West
The President visits Colorado, Montana and Arizona to discuss his health-care plan and drops in on Yellowstone National Park Photographs by Olivier Douliery...

John McCain's Campaign Farewell
The GOP nominee concedes defeat at a somber gathering at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona Photographs for TIME by Christopher Morris / VII and Danny...


