Photo Essays
Tough Enough: Rare Photos of Ben Hogan’s Return to Golf, January 1950
A common misconception among people who know very little about golf is that golfers are, by and large, kind of soft. They don’t run around at high speeds, they...
Behind the Picture: Medgar Evers’ Funeral, June 15, 1963
In 1994, eight black and four white jurors found 74-year-old white supremacist and long-time Klan member Byron De La Beckwith guilty of first-degree murder in...
May Is National Nurses Month: Time to Say ‘Thank You!’
Some jobs are so emblematic of how we all perceive ourselves (or rather, they’re emblematic of how we hope others might perceive us) that, paradoxically, it’s...
Strangers to Reason: LIFE Inside a Psychiatric Hospital, 1938
For all of the lighthearted and often downright frivolous material that appeared in LIFE through the years — and there was, thank goodness, a lot of...
The Day Einstein Died: A Photographer’s Story
Albert Einstein, whose theories exploded and reshaped our ideas of how the universe works, died on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was 76. His funeral and...
Brooke Army Medical Center
or troops wounded in combat, life changes in an instant. But the road to a new normal takes years. For some of the grievously wounded troops from Iraq and...
Behind the Picture: George Lott, Casualty of War
In January 1945, LIFE magazine published a groundbreaking story, featuring dozens of photographs by Ralph Morse, chronicling the journey of a badly wounded...
LIFE With Marlon Brando: Early Photos of the Acting Legend
The year was 1949, and 25-year-old Marlon Brando — “the brilliant brat,” as LIFE magazine called him following his astonishing work on Broadway in A Streetcar...
Hell on Wheels: LIFE With Mutant Bicycles
Every year, more and more people in the United States are clambering aboard their beloved bicycles and blithely pedaling into a brighter, cleaner, healthier...
Einstein’s Office: Genius in the Details
The death of a public figure of Albert Einstein’s stature is the sort of event that, literally and figuratively, stops the presses. No scientist has been more...
LIFE Behind the Picture: The Photo That Changed the Face of AIDS
In November 1990 LIFE magazine published a photograph of a young man named David Kirby — his body wasted by AIDS, his gaze locked on something beyond this world...
LIFE With the Astrochimps: Early Stars of the Space Race
On the morning of January 31, 1961, in south Florida, a 5-year-old chimpanzee — dubbed “Ham” by his handlers — ate a breakfast of baby cereal, condensed milk,...
Expectant Parents Die in Hit-and-Run: Photos of a Close-Knit Community in Mourning
It’s among the most exciting moments of a young couple’s life: Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21, were rushing from their Brooklyn, N.Y. home early Sunday...
Paying Homage - Bush Visits Wounded Troops
After his recent annual physical at Bethesda's National Naval Medical Center, the President visited injured troops. TIME photographer Christopher Morris was...
Photos from Kolkata Hospital
A devastating fire kills at least 89 people
Behind the Picture: Albert Schweitzer in Africa
Albert Schweitzer — the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, theologian, musician and “medical missionary” who spent decades in West Africa — was one of the most...
Walter Reed Hospital: End of an Era
Now that the famed military hospital has moved its final patients to newer quarters, a look back at highlights from the history of the Army's premier medical...
Obesity in Mid-Century America: Early Days of a National Plague
“The most serious health problem in the U.S. today is obesity.” Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? In fact, that very assertion is now so commonplace that one might be...
Hospital for Horses
The Equine Centre in Newmarket, England is the largest and the most advanced equine hospital in Europe Photographs by Dan Kitwood / Getty Images
A Fierce and Tender Eye: Gordon Parks on Poverty’s Dire Toll
In June 1961, LIFE magazine published a story that, at the time, was astonishing not only for its unflinching coverage of abject poverty, but for the at-once...
