- 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
- 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
- Pope Leo XIV: Celebrating The First American Pope - LIFE
The world is watching to see where Leo takes the See of Rome and the millions who look to it for guidance and, ultimately, salvation Here are a selection of photos from LIFE’s new special issue to Pope Leo XIV
- 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 ”
- Arts, Entertainment, Culture - LIFE
The cultural influences from music, movies, theater, and design that have helped shaped the world we live in today
- 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 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
- LIFE
In 1948 LIFE was back to report on the latest innovation in the field: mirrored sunglasses The story reported that “the new glasses can be used as handy make-up mirrors, and they can hide black or bloodshot eyes completely ”
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