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# Ben Cosgrove


## Ben Cosgrove


## Ben Cosgrove


* ![A soldier of the Free French dashes to aid a French resistance fighter taking aim at a German sniper following the liberation of Paris, 1944.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9aea9f8a7967ea78/69876d65428a9e123ecc5e30/140407-ralph-morse-spotlight-02.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 8, 2014  
### [Ralph Morse: Photographer Spotlight](https://time.com/3623776/ralph-morse-photographer-spotlight/)  
The great LIFE photographer Ralph Morse has died at 97\. Here, in tribute, LIFE.com shares his most s...
* ![Frank Sinatra in rehearsal, 1965](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f7e90f540967d53/69876ccf0b72e319516dc5d5/141214-frank-sinatra-15.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 8, 2014  
### [LIFE With Sinatra: Classic Portraits of 'The Voice' in 1965](https://time.com/3619112/frank-sinatra-portraits-of-the-voice-in-1965/)  
LIFE opens a window on Sinatra's famously guarded private world, as well as the Chairman's own take ...
* ![Dancers photographed from above with a Polaroid SX-70 camera, 1972.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46e883c373656c37/6987606055a8593abca8330e/141013-edwin-land-polaroid-09.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 7, 2014  
### [A LIFE Photographer's Gorgeous Early Polaroids](https://time.com/3502581/early-polaroids-a-photographer-plays-with-the-sx-70/)  
An appreciation of Edwin Land's genius and the beautiful, compact universe embodied in his Polaroid ...
* ![Subway entrance, Eastern Parkway at Utica Avenue, Brooklyn, 1946.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc414b6aa8452ecce/69876059428a9e0f09cc47eb/141013-brooklyn-new-york-16.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 7, 2014  
### [Hipsterless Brooklyn: Vintage Photos From a Vanished World](https://time.com/3502414/brooklyn-before-hipsters-photos-from-a-vanished-world/)  
Decades before Brooklyn became synonymous with hipsters, hip-hop and locavores, photographer Ed Clar...
* ![A back-scratcher encrusted with gilt, pearls and sea shells is an expensive adaptation of a standard 39-cent model.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83ebfb87aa6e6076/69876ad135ba6f3874c058c3/141125-christmas-gifts-02.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 5, 2014  
### [Holiday Jeer: Good-for-Nothing Gifts](https://time.com/3604959/holiday-jeer-wonderfully-good-for-nothing-gifts/)  
Thank heavens ridiculous, overpriced gifts are no longer on anyone's wish list. Right?  
* ![Quartet known as The Mello-Men bays in harmony before screen showing four canine characters whose voices they represent in the forthcoming Disney feature cartoon, The Lady and The Tramp.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f5b6aa699d11195/69876c0206f2c13cfa33292a/141202-disney-animators-01.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 4, 2014  
### [Walt's Wild Men: LIFE Behind the Scenes at Disney Studios](https://time.com/3614660/walts-wild-men-life-behind-the-scenes-at-disney-studios/)  
In a 1953 article titled 'A Silver Anniversary for Walt and Mickey,' LIFE magazine took its readers ...
* ![Wounded Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Purdie \(center, with bandaged head\) reaches toward a stricken comrade after a fierce firefight south of the DMZ, Vietnam, October 1966.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt208865dcb5c0557a/6987600cf887dc5b17e876ae/vietnam-war-larry-burrows-01.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 2, 2014  
### [Behind the Picture: Larry Burrows' 'Reaching Out,' Vietnam, 1966](https://time.com/3491033/life-behind-the-picture-larry-burrows-reaching-out-vietnam-1966/)  
Revisiting one of the most dramatic and harrowing photographs made during the long, divisive war in ...
* ![Sgt. Johnie Morgan in Seattle with his wife, "Blue," 1951.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7fbb1af1161e18e/6987680ee53abad9944d5d4e/141110-wayne-miller-korean-bride-06.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 1, 2014  
### [America's 'First Korean War Bride' Comes Home](https://time.com/3576662/americas-first-korean-war-bride-comes-home/)  
Recalling a wartime story that, at its heart, is less about warfare than about the simple, indomitab...
* ![Woody Allen at home in Manhattan, 1967.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4309e9bea0efc863/69876aa155a85939caa844af/141124-woody-allen-07.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 1, 2014  
### [Woody Allen: Portraits of the Neurotic as a Young Man](https://time.com/3603244/woody-allen-portraits-of-the-neurotic-as-a-young-man/)  
On Woody Allen's 79th birthday, LIFE.com looks back at the filmmaker as a young man in 1967 New York...
* ![Adolf Eichmann awaits trial in Israel, 1961.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c95116406cd9265/698847298e06012d1c45f855/01_002541131.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 1, 2014  
### [Adolf Eichmann in Israel: Portraits of a Nazi War Criminal](https://time.com/3881576/adolf-eichmann-in-israel-photos-nazi-war-criminal/)  
Recent reports that the world's most wanted Nazi -- a notorious sadist named Alois Brunner -- died i...  
* ![Scene inside a New York City speakeasy during Prohibition, 1933.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86846da1e8a68e19/69876bd035ba6f01c1c05a73/141202-prohibition-1933-06.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 1, 2014  
### [Prohibition's Last Call: Inside the Speakeasies of New York in 1933](https://time.com/3613626/prohibition-photos-inside-the-speakeasies-of-new-york-in-1933/)  
Photos shot by the great Margaret Bourke-White for FORTUNE magazine in 1933, capturing the pre-repea...
* ![Scene during the Crimean War, 1850s.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf5de174e2976500/69884b6d55a859594ba8b811/140303-crimea-war-1854-01.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 30, 2014  
### [Crimea: Where War Photography Was Born](https://time.com/3881577/crimea-where-war-photography-was-born/)  
LIFE.com looks back at a long-ago conflict in Crimea through a very specific lens: namely, that of t...
* ![Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, 1947](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71ba4d257a0e837d/69876b04428a9ef64acc5a15/141125-streetcar-named-desire-03.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 30, 2014  
### [Brando Takes Broadway: On the Set of 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' 1947](https://time.com/3605994/brando-takes-broadway-life-on-the-set-of-a-streetcar-named-desire-in-1947/)  
On the anniversary of the Broadway premier of 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' LIFE presents photos from ...
* ![LIFE magazine cover created for the movie, <i>The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.</i>](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1faebb220deecf57/69876009e20a873e85a82615/walter-mitty-fake-life-cover-05.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 30, 2014  
### ['Walter Mitty' and the LIFE Magazine Covers That Never Were](https://time.com/3491113/walter-mitty-and-the-life-magazine-covers-that-never-were/)  
Many of the classic LIFE magazine covers on display in 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' were, in fa...
* ![Nylon stockings, 1945.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf2724639bae4857/6987624dcd6848be2109742f/141022-nylon-anniversary-05.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 30, 2014  
### [In Praise of Nylon Stockings: Classic Photos of a Fashion Staple](https://time.com/3532120/nylon-stockings-classic-photos-of-a-fashion-staple/)  
Classic photos that capture stockings' allure, and the quite evident reasons for the fashion staple'...

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