Photo Essays
Buzz Thrill: LIFE Goes to a Bee Market
A recent report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the still-mysterious and, frankly, frightening phenomenon known as Colony-Collapse Disorder — the...
Germany Surrenders at Reims, May 7, 1945: A Photographer’s Story
On a rainy Saturday night in early May, 1945, LIFE photographer Ralph Morse was working in his hotel room in Paris, writing captions for a series of photos he’d...
Dutch Abdication: Willem-Alexander Becomes Europe’s Youngest Monarch
King Willem-Alexander is the first Dutch king for 123 years and, at 46, the youngest in Europe
Behind the Picture: Goebbels Glares at Eisenstaedt, Geneva, 1933
The unsettling image of the Third Reich’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, glaring at photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt during a League of Nations conference...
After the Fall: Photos of Hitler’s Bunker and the Ruins of Berlin, 1945
In April 1945, as Russian and German troops fought — savagely, street by street — for control of the German capital, it became increasingly clear that the Allies...
Say Goodbye to Hollywood: LIFE With Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier, 1956
Before William and Kate, before Charles and Di, before Liz and Dick (I and II), before any of the “storybook” weddings of the past several decades, there was the...
Winston Churchill at Leisure: LIFE Portraits of the Private Man
On May 10, 1940, as Hitler’s Germany was invading Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg, the British Conservative leader Winston Churchill took the reins of a...
World War II in Color: American Bombers and Their Crews, 1942
Within weeks of the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s official entry into the Second World War, Allied forces in Europe activated the...
LIFE in WWII: Photos From the North African Campaign, 1943
So many World War II battlefields have been immortalized in histories, memoirs, novels and films that the names alone can conjure stark and stirring images for...
Picturing Misery: David Seymour’s ‘Children of Europe,’ 1948
He was born Dawid Szymin in Warsaw in 1911, and would later anglicize his name to David Seymour, but for generations of photojournalism aficionados and history...
Earthquake in Iran, 1962: Amid the Ruins
Few people on Earth are as familiar with earthquakes as the citizens of Iran. Crisscrossed by a number of major fault lines and almost perpetually subject to...
Celebrating The Beatles, Please Please Me Turns 50
It might be hard to believe, but Please Please Me, The Beatles’ debut album, was released 50 years ago today. It was March 22, 1963, when the LP was rushed out...
Immigration in Europe
Greece, Italy and Spain are just beginning to grapple with large numbers of migrants. So far, they're failing.
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...
Photographer Spotlight: John Dominis
Some photographers are so skilled at covering a specific topic, or through the years have created so distinctive a feel in their pictures, that it’s possible to...
LIFE Behind the Picture: Skull on a Tank, Guadalcanal, 1942
In February 1943, LIFE magazine published a series of photographs from Guadalcanal — the largest of the Solomon Islands and the site of the Allies’ first,...
LIFE in the Korean War: Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan
Few people have lived as long, as varied and as complete a life as David Douglas Duncan. And certainly no photographers ever enjoyed a longer, more varied or...
Heatwave in Europe
Southern Europe is in the grip of a devastating heatwave which has claimed many lives. TIME takes a journey through the region.
Photos from the Europe's Deep Freeze
More than 200 people have died as a result of freezing temperatures across the continent
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...
