Photo Essays

LIFE Behind the Picture: Larry Burrows’ ‘Reaching Out,’ 1966
In October 1966, on a mud-splattered hill just south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Vietnam, LIFE magazine’s Larry Burrows made a photograph that, for...

In Laos, Turning Bombs into Scrap Has Become a Lucrative but Dangerous Business
Live ordnance from the U.S. bombing campaign 40 years ago still litters the country, but that hasn't stopped locals from harvesting the metal Photographs by...


