Photo Essays
The Hard, Steady Work of Creating Beauty: Ballet Dancers Rehearse, 1936
Few things, after three-quarters of a century, manage to stay the same. But any dancer — and specifically, any ballet dancer — perusing Alfred Eisenstaedt’s...
Smoke Signals: The Original Status Update
Habemus Papam! Crowds in St Peter’s Square rejoiced today after the 115 cardinals sequestered in the Vatican finally chose the Catholic Church’s new Supreme...
A Zuckerberg Family Album
The Facebook founder shares a few of his family snapshots with TIME
Mark Zuckerberg — Person of the Year 2010
A portfolio of portraits by Martin Schoeller
Gang of New York: The Reapers, 1972
Forty years ago this week, LIFE magazine published an intimate and, for the time, remarkably even-handed article on the mounting problems associated with street...
Denizens of the Deep: Alexander Semenov’s Pictures of Undersea Creatures
Growing up in Russia, Alexander Semenov was fascinated by the undersea world. For most of us, a few trips to the aquarium and the occasional scuba dive would be...
Behind the Picture: ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’
Triumph. That’s the look on President Harry Truman’s face. Sheer, unadulterated triumph. In fact, of the countless politics-related photographs made over, say,...
Tough Mudder Love: Inside the Demanding Yet Rewarding Obstacle Course
In this week’s issue of TIME, we explore the cult of Tough Mudder, the obstacle-course racing event held across the country. Tough Mudder was launched in 2010...
Inside Facebook Headquarters
A glimpse into the offices of the social-networking powerhouse Photographs by Emily Shur for TIME
A Glimpse Inside a Facebook Server Farm
TIME gets a tour of the site's Santa Clara, California data center Photographs by Martin Schoeller for TIME
Around the World with Facebook
TIME sends photographers to four of the networking site's overseas offices
Life Inside Facebook's Headquarters
Cubicle culture in the social-networking site's Silicon Valley offices Photographs by Martin Schoeller for TIME
