Photo Essays

Obama Attends Vigil for Boston Marathon Bombing Victims
President Obama traveled to Boston on Thursday to speak at an interfaith service for victims of Monday’s attack.

The Aftermath of the Boston Marathon Explosions
With at least three killed and 140 injured, locals in Boston are struggling to come to terms with the devastation following Monday’s explosions. People...

PHOTOS: U.S. Newspapers Lead with Explosions at Boston Marathon Finish Line
On the morning after two bombs blew up near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, newspapers around the country devoted their front pages to images of bloodied...

Marathon Carnage: Explosions in Boston
Mayhem descended on the Boston marathon Monday afternoon. Roughly three hours after the winners crossed the finish line, there was reportedly a loud explosion on...

LIFE With Horace the Housebroken Hare
Carl Mydans belongs on anyone’s short list of the 20th century’s finest photojournalists. The Boston native chronicled downtrodden migrant farmers in New England...

PHOTOS: Astronaut Chris Hadfield Tweets Stunning Images from Orbit
Sure, sometimes Twitter feels like one big maelstrom of drivel — a digital platform for utter minutiae. But at other times the social media platform can be...

East Coast Braces for Blizzard
Snow began to fall around the Northeast on Friday at the start of what’s predicted to be a massive, possibly historic blizzard, and residents scurried to stock...

College Basketball: LIFE Shoots Old-School Hoops
The college experience — the fads; the controversies; the ever-changing expectations of students, parents and faculty members; and especially the sports — that...

Yousuf Karsh's Portraits in Boston
The work of the legendary portraitist is celebrated at a centenary exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

Tara Donovan at ICA, Boston
TIME's art critic Richard Lacayo reviews the first major museum survey of the American sculptor, who transforms disposable objects into stunning works of art

The Plane That Drives
Or is it a car that flies? An innovative Boston company introduces a remarkable vehicle — and a striking vision of the future

RealBenefits Reaches Out
A Boston company creates software to help people in need register for government assistancePhotographs for TIME by Lauren Fuller

Art: The Renaissance's Big Men on Canvas
A new show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts charts the competition among the three giants of 16th-century Venetian art

Tea-Party Tax Protests
On Tax Day, demonstrators across America evoked the famed 1773 Boston incident to protest the President's fiscal policies

James Dean: Original Rebel
So much has been written about James Dean, and his influence looms so large over movies and over popular cultural in general, that it’s always jarring to be...


