Photo Essays
LIFE Covers: The Vietnam War
LIFE magazine’s coverage of the war in Vietnam was unique among American publications not only because of the scope and the uniform excellence of the...
Bitter Harvest: LIFE With America’s Migrant Workers, 1959
America has transformed its economic landscape (and has seen that landscape transformed by outside forces) so thoroughly in the past half-century that, to a...
Picturing Misery: David Seymour’s ‘Children of Europe,’ 1948
He was born Dawid Szymin in Warsaw in 1911, and would later anglicize his name to David Seymour, but for generations of photojournalism aficionados and history...
The Best of LIFE: 37 Years in Pictures
Over several decades spanning the heart of the 20th century, one American magazine ― calling itself, plainly and boldly, LIFE ― published an astonishing number...
Photojournalism at the Crossroads
From the last roll of Kodachrome to iPhone apps, analog and digital responses to photography's changing landscape By Phil Bicker
Stalingrad, 1947: A World in Pieces
It’s sometimes easy to forget one particular, elemental truth: We live in a physical world. In a digital age — when so so much of what we see, hear and act upon...
World Press Photo 2007
The World Press Photo Awards, the prestigious international photojournalism competition held every year in Amsterdam, have been announced. Here we present a...
10 Iconic LIFE Magazine Covers
As 2012 winds down, and as media outlets online and off begin to roll out their traditional end-of-year Top 10 lists, LIFE.com is gamely joining the fray. Well,...
This is War! Robert Capa at Work
A major new Robert Capa exhibition, the father of photojournalism, takes place at the International Center of Photography, New York. September 26, 2007 --...
LIFE’s Best Convention Photos: The GOP
Throughout the decades that LIFE was publishing as a weekly magazine, politics and politicians of every stripe held a central place in the publication’s mission...
LIFE’s Best Convention Photos: The Democrats
[NOTE: With a few small but critical differences, this introduction resembles that written for another, very similar gallery on LIFE.com — namely, "LIFE's Best...
