Photo Essays
LIFE Behind the Picture: Marines Blasting a Cave, Iwo Jima, 1945
In April 1945, LIFE magazine published one of the most memorable cover images of its four-decade run as a major photographic weekly. The picture, made in March...
The Salt of Life
Life is hard for the nomadic people of the Sahara Desert who live and work along the 450-mile salt road from Timbuktu
Kick Back and Relax in a Salt Cave
For centuries, Eastern Europeans have sat in natural salt caves to help relieve respiratory, circulatory and skin ailments—and stress. Recently, entrepreneurs...
Underground Economy: The Big Salt Mine in Detroit
Nearly 1,200 feet beneath the city, workers excavate one of the continent's robust salt reservesPhotographs by Lisa Kereszi for TIME
Beneath Bolivia's Salt Flats: Lithium Wealth
The government of Evo Morales maintains control of half the world supply of a valuable resource, critical in the production of the latest battery...
