Photo Essays
Happy Birthday Willie Nelson: Rare Photos from the 70s and 80s
Willie Nelson, who turns 80 today (born April 30, 1933), is one of those musicians who manages to comfortably straddle very different worlds. To some, he’s a pot...
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...
A Profile of Cigarette Warnings Around the World
As the U.S. changes its tobacco warning label for the first time in 25 years, TIME presents a selection of cautionary labels from around the globe
Your Doctor Wants You to Smoke
Vintage propaganda is always fun, but old cigarette ads may be the most cringeworthy. The New York Public Library just opened "Not a Cough in the Car," an...
Einstein’s Office: Genius in the Details
The death of a public figure of Albert Einstein’s stature is the sort of event that, literally and figuratively, stops the presses. No scientist has been more...
Photographer Spotlight: Martha Holmes
Martha Holmes (b. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 7, 1923) was on the staff of LIFE for five years in the 1940s and worked for three decades as a freelancer for the...
LIFE on Drugs: Photos From America’s War on Marijuana, 1969
For all of the myriad, often-brilliant ways that LIFE covered the world in the middle part of the 20th century, the magazine had a rather fraught relationship...
The Child Tobacco Farmers of Kazakhstan
A new Human Rights Watch report shows that young workers have been exposed to high levels of nicotine, as child labor helps harvest from farms that supply a...
LIFE at the First Super Bowl: Rare Photos
Sports fans are notoriously contrary, and it would be tough to find any two of them — even two supporters of the same team — who could agree on everything having...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Photos From the Ruins
NOTE: This story and some of the images in the gallery originally appeared, in substantially different form, on an earlier incarnation of LIFE.com. One scene...
In a Country of Chaos
Post-Saddam Iraq is a place where children play on tanks with live ammunition, city water is often unsafe and surgeons sometimes have to operate by the light of...
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...
GOP Women Party Hard, 1941
“On the evening of May 20,” begins an article in the June 16, 1941, issue of LIFE magazine, “members of the Young Women’s Republican Club of Milford, Conn.,...
