- Jimmy Carter: A Noble Life
The following is from the introduction to LIFE’s special tribute issue, Jimmy Carter: A Noble Life, which is available online and at newsstands When James Earl Carter died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on December 29, 2024, he was 100, and many people who as 18-year-olds had voted for or against him in the 1970s were contemplating
- 1960s Photo Archives - LIFE
Explore 1960s within the LIFE photography vault, one of the most prestigious privately held archives from the US around the World
- The Most Iconic Photographs of All Time - LIFE
Experience LIFE's visual record of the 20th century by exploring the most iconic photographs from one of the most famous private photo collections in the world
- The 100 Most Important Photos Ever - LIFE
Here are a few selections from LIFE’s new special issue 100 Photographs: The Most Important Pictures Ever and the Stories Behind Them (clockwise from top left) Joe Rosenthal AP Shutterstock; Robert Beck Sports Illustrated Getty; Library of Congress, Prints Photographs Division, FSA OWI Collection, [LC-DIG-fsa-8b29516]; NASA
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In 1946, in that moment after World War II when people were looking to get back on the road, LIFE photographer Andreas Feininger documented one of the most beautiful highways in North America
- Mysterious Italy: The Mummies of Venzone - LIFE
One of the stranger photosets in the LIFE archives was shot in a bucolic small town in Northern Italy—one in which the ancient architecture was not the only thing that was well-preserved
- Every Loving Detail: Inside a Lavish Kansas City Wedding, 1947 - LIFE
LIFE decided to pay tribute to “this burgeoning romanticism” by dispatching staff photographer NIna Leen to document a particularly lavish wedding, with a focus on all the preparations leading up to it, for a nine-page story headlined “ June Wedding: Kansas City Girl Marries With All the Fixings ”
- The Bohemian Life in Big Sur, 1959
LIFE’s story is richly illustrated with photos by J R Eyerman, and to today’s viewer it can be remarkable how stately most the images are Sure, Eyerman photographed a few skinny dippers by the shore and captured an outdoor art class drawing a nude model
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