Behind the Picture

Behind the Picture: Larry Burrows' 'Reaching Out,' Vietnam, 1966

By Ben Cosgrove

The Photo That Changed the Face of AIDS

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MacArthur Lands at Luzon, the Philippines, 1945: Behind the Picture

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Behind the Picture: Portrait of a Young Man With a Camera

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The Photo That Won World War II: 'Dead Americans at Buna Beach,' 1943

The story behind the famous WWII photo of three dead American soldiers half-buried in the sand at a place called Buna Beach

By Ben Cosgrove

Behind the Picture: George Lott, Wounded Warrior

LIFE.com remembers a young wounded warrior named George Lott -- and how a LIFE photographer chronicled Lott's extraordinary odyssey from a battlefield in France in 1944 to safety and rehab in the U.S.

By Liz Ronk

Ali, Frazier and the 'Fight of the Century': A Photographer Remembers

After refusing to register for the draft in 1967 — at the very height of his career — 25-year-old Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight championship title and endured a forced layoff from the...

By Ben Cosgrove

Gandhi and His Spinning Wheel: The Story Behind an Iconic Photo

On Gandhi's 145th birthday, LIFE shares the story behind the most famous photo ever made of the pioneer of non-violent civil disobedience.

By Ben Cosgrove

The Rooster vs. the Logo: A Judgment Call to Crow About

Behold: the only cover among the thousands published by LIFE magazine that did not feature the famous red-and-white logo.

By Ben Cosgrove

How to Take a Group Portrait of 14 NFL Quarterbacks on Their Day Off

In 1961, photographer Ralph Morse managed to get every starting NFL quarterback, including six future Hall of Famers, in a single studio for a group portrait. Easy? No. Worth it? Yes.

By Ben Cosgrove

Behind the Picture: Noël Coward in the Desert

Loomis Dean's portrait of the composer, actor, singer and playwright Noël Coward, standing in the broiling Nevada sun and looking for all the world like a man waiting for someone to bring him a cocktail.

By Ben Cosgrove

'The Little Boy Who Wouldn't Smile': A Story of the Korean War

An article and photos in LIFE magazine in July 1951 told the story of a five-year-old Korean orphan named Kang, and the efforts to get the boy to "return to health and life."

By Ben Cosgrove

Photographer: My 'Iconic' Beatles Photo Is Actually Kind of Lame

It’s always illuminating to talk with photographers about their most celebrated pictures—especially if some of those photos have, over the years, taken on lives of their own. Example: John, Paul, George and Ringo in a...

By Ben Cosgrove

Behind the Picture: Saving a Wounded Child, Saipan, 1944

In 1944, LIFE photographer Peter Stackpole was in the Pacific, covering the ugly, protracted Battle of Saipan. He also helped save a wounded child's life.

By Ben Cosgrove

JFK and RFK, Los Angeles, July 1960: Behind the Picture

Remembering Hank Walker's famous photo of John and Robert Kennedy in a hotel suite during the 1960 Democratic National Convention

By Ben Cosgrove

Behind the Picture: RFK's Assassination, Los Angeles, 1968

LIFE.com presents photographs by Bill Eppridge made before and immediately after Robert Kennedy's assassination -- including one haunting, iconic picture that helped define the late 1960s.

By Ben Cosgrove

Behind the Picture: 'Dewey Defeats Truman' and the Politics of Memory

No political photo is more famous than W. Eugene Smith's shot of Harry Truman holding aloft a newspaper with the (erroneous) headline, DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.

By Ben Cosgrove

Behind the Picture: 'The American Way' and the Flood of '37

In 1937 LIFE published a photograph that, for generations, has been the image of the Great Depression: an economic cataclysm distilled in one frame. But the story behind the picture tells a different, and more fascinating, tale.

By Ben Cosgrove

Behind the Picture: 'Skull on a Tank,' Guadalcanal, 1942

Rare and classic photos from Guadalcanal -- and the story behind one of the most unsettling photos from any war, anywhere

By Ben Cosgrove

Behind the Picture: Albert Schweitzer in Africa

LIFE.com republishes a W. Eugene Smith photo essay from 1954 that helped to fix Schweitzer's work in the public mind for decades to come.

By Liz Ronk
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