Photo Essays
Manhattan Fantasy: The Woolworth Building at 100
Opened 100 years ago today (April 24, 1913) when President Woodrow Wilson pushed a button that lit up every floor at once, the steel-frame Woolworth Building in...
LIFE With Rock Stars … and Their Parents
They had fame, reams of money and fans willing to do wild, unmentionable things just to breathe the same air — but in its September 24, 1971 issue, LIFE magazine...
Being 007: LIFE Behind the Scenes at James Bond Auditions
In the early 1960s, movie producers adapting Ian Fleming’s novels about a suave British spy named James Bond plucked a relative unknown, Sean Connery, from...
Nick D’Aloisio, a $30 Million Life in Pictures
It might seem odd to look back at the life of a 17 year old, but Nick D’Aloisio is no ordinary teenager. The British-Australian high school student sold Summly,...
A Preview of Poster 150: Celebrating 150 Years of London Underground Posters
It was not long after the modern graphic poster was invented before the turn of the twentieth century that it was taken up and championed by the London...
LIFE With Michael Caine: Rare Photos From 1966
In October 1966, in a lengthy profile of a young English actor on the rise, LIFE magazine took a stab at describing what would in time be recognized not only as...
LIFE at the 1948 London Olympics
As the 2012 London Olympics get underway, LIFE.com looks back in photos — many of which never ran in LIFE magazine — at another summer Olympiad in the great...
Inside Big Ben: A Look at What Makes the World’s Most Beloved Clock Tick
Of all the ways that human beings have developed through the centuries to illustrate abstruse concepts, arguably the most elegant is the clock. Or, to be more...
London's Tube After Midnight
The world's oldest underground railway, the London Underground, is undergoing a multibillion-pound upgrade. We mind the gap and take a peek at the work. Photos...
LIFE Visits a Snail-Watching Society in (of Course) England
Consider the snail. Humble, deliberate, primeval, the wee gastropod that comes to mind when we hear or see that one, simple word — snail — is, seemingly, the...
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 at Lascaux: Early Color Photos From Another World
The story is so improbable, so marvelous, that it feels more like the remnant of a dream, or a half-remembered myth, rather than something that unfolded within...
Brooklyn Bridge: The Perfect Span
Most of us have a favorite bridge. That is to say, most everyone has, in his or her mind’s eye, a structure that surpasses all others in the requisite traits: it...
The Secrets of London's Buried Bones
Ancient skeletons in a new exhibition at London's Wellcome Collection reveal how Londoners once lived. Photographs courtesy of the Museum of London/Wellcome...
London Brawling: The G-20 Protests
Anticapitalist and climate-change activists converged before the Bank of England in London to demand action on poverty and climate change as world leaders arrive...
London Builds for 2012
The Olympic flame is still to arrive Beijing, yet with more than four years to go, London is already hard at work on the legacy of the 2012 Olympics Photographs...
Photos: In London, Turning Access into Apps
The London Datastore urges the city's agencies and civil servants to put their data into a public repository where anyone can access it, graph it, map it or...
London Fashion Week
The glamour world came to town for London Fashion Week. We donned our best bib and tucker and went to find out what was this season's new black
London's Gathering Storm
As financial markets approach meltdown, the City of London — once hailed as the business center of the world — faces uncertain and painful times. Photos for...
Twiggy: Rare Photos of a Sixties Icon
London in the mid-to late-1960s was as central to the look and feel of that fabled era as any place on earth. The music that emerged from England (the Beatles,...
