Photo Essays
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...
LIFE Behind the Picture: Children at a Puppet Theater, Paris, 1963
Forget the fabled rudeness of the Parisians. Forget the crowds of tourists who flock to the City of Light in the summer, making the city’s winding streets,...
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...
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...
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...
