Photo Essays
Faces of the Creators: LIFE’s Most Revealing Artist Portraits
It’s always intriguing to see the faces of the creators behind famous works of art. While Picasso, Dali, Matisse and perhaps a handful of other artists are...
LIFE and Civil Rights: Segregation in 1956 South Carolina
In late 1956, over the course of several months, LIFE published what the magazine itself described as “a series of major articles on the background of the crisis...
Georgia O’Keeffe: Invincible
Very few major American artists have ever been as productive, for so long, in so many mediums, as Georgia O’Keeffe was during her extraordinary career. From her...
Massive Storm Rips Through the Southeast, Spinning Tornadoes in Tennessee and Georgia
The weather system spans from Michigan to Louisiana across a broad expanse of the eastern half of the U.S., bringing winds strong enough to overturn 18-wheelers...
Bigotry in the USA: Photos of the Klan in 1946
According to a recent report (March 5, 2013) by the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center, the number of extremist and anti-government “Patriot” groups...
Georgia Conflict Aftermath
On patrol with Russian troops, TIME photographer Yuri Kozyrev witnesses signs of ethnic hostility in the conflicted region
War in Georgia
Fighting escalates in the separatist enclave of South Ossetia
Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week’s Toll
In June 1969, LIFE magazine published a feature that today, incredibly, remains as moving and, in some quarters, as controversial as it was when it sparked...
Floods Overwhelm Georgia
Heavy rains claim eight lives and displace hundreds
American Atrocity: Remembering My Lai
Through the centuries, whether combatants have fought with spears, bows and arrows, muzzle-loading rifles, naval cannons, long-range bombers, nuclear weapons or...
The Collapse of a Community Bank
The failure of a small town bank destroys a small Georgia town's faith in government and the economy itself. Photographs by David Walter Banks / Luceo for...
RoboCup 2007
The RoboCup Federation's annual competition, held this year at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, invites scientists and amateurs to construct a robot team capable of...
Kandinsky and O'Keeffe: Pioneers of Abstraction
In New York City, two major exhibitions trace the development of abstraction in the work of Wassily Kandinsky and Georgia O'Keeffe
Little Richard: Rare Photos of Rock and Roll’s Original Wild Man
It will probably come as no surprise to those familiar with LIFE magazine — especially the LIFE of the 1950s and 1960s — that a pop-culture phenomenon as strange...
Voice of America: Johnny Cash in 1969
“Every man knows he is a sissy compared to Johnny Cash.” — Bono There aren’t too many American artists of the past century who left a richer legacy, and one can...
