Photo Essays
LIFE With Jack Nicholson: Early Photos of an Actor on the Brink
As difficult as it might be to fathom today — when the man known to all the world as “Jack” has journeyed from respected actor to movie star to superstar to...
Million-Dollar Manhunt: Los Angeles On Edge As Search Intensifies for Fugitive Ex-Cop
A pervasive fear hangs over the Los Angeles area as Christopher Dorner, the renegade fugitive accused of killing three people, remains on the run. The Los...
LIFE With Steve McQueen: Photos of the King of Cool in 1963
In the spring of 1963, already popular from his big-screen breakout as one of The Magnificent Seven and just a couple months away from entering the Badass Hall...
I Was in LIFE: Ann-Margret Remembers
Fifty-odd years ago, a young singer/dancer on the verge of breaking into the movies visited LIFE magazine’s L.A. bureau — and for once, the newshounds who worked...
LIFE With Dem Bums: Spring Training at Dodgertown, 1948
With the exception of that team from the Bronx and, perhaps, the Red Sox, no baseball franchise in history is as storied as the Dodgers — especially the...
The Fire Last Time: LIFE in Watts, 1966
The August 1965 Watts Riots (or Watts Rebellion, depending on one’s perspective and politics), were among the bloodiest, costliest and — in the five decades...
An Evening of Star-Gazing: Photos of Celebrities Walking the Oscars Red Carpet
On the movie industry’s biggest night, all the stops are pulled out at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre as the year’s best films are honored with golden statuettes. ...
LIFE Rides With the Hells Angels, 1965
From Jesse James and Butch Cassidy to Scarface and Tony Soprano, outlaws have always held a singularly ambiguous place in America’s popular imagination: we fear...
Photographer Spotlight: John Dominis
Some photographers are so skilled at covering a specific topic, or through the years have created so distinctive a feel in their pictures, that it’s possible to...
Los Angeles — Portrait of a City
A stunning collection of photographs from Taschen's new book, [ITALIC "Los Angeles — Portrait of a City"], reveals the city's colorful history
LIFE With Mickey Cohen: Gangster in the Sun
It might seem strange, at first, that a city as closely associated with sun and fun would also be the city that helped spawn, and has been the location for, so...
Larger Than Life: Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose
Industrialist, record-setting aviator, movie mogul, recluse — Howard Hughes was one of the most accomplished and mysterious figures America has ever produced …...
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...
Charles Manson on Trial: Madness Visible
Charles Manson has been in jail for four decades. In 1971, he and several of his followers — Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Louise Van...
Dustin Hoffman: Early Photos of an Actor on the Rise
If they stick around long enough, great actors — or great American actors, anyway — often seem to go through similar, predictable stages in their careers...
Remembering Nick Adenhart
The promising young pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels was killed in a car accident during the first week of the 2009 season. Now his teammates will carry his...
If Teens Could Vote
At a Los Angeles Rock the Vote event in September, photographer Morgan Hagar asked teenagers to complete the sentence, "If I could vote in this election, it...
Microsoft's Project Natal in Action
The company unveils its new motion-control game console at E3 in Los Angeles
Michael Jackson's Memorial Service
The world bids farewell to the King of Pop at the Staples Center in Los Angeles
James Dean: Original Rebel
So much has been written about James Dean, and his influence looms so large over movies and over popular cultural in general, that it’s always jarring to be...
