--- title: LIFE Photo Essay | TIME description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/tag/life-photo-essay/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/tag/life-photo-essay/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: article twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # LIFE Photo Essay ## LIFE Photo Essay *  May 14, 2015 ## [Life Before ‘Having It All’: Portrait of a Working Girl](https://time.com/3828274/working-girl-1940/) by Eliza Berman *  May 6, 2015 ## [Celebrate National Nurses Week With a LIFE Cover Story on Nursing in the 1930s](https://time.com/3841878/national-nurses-week/) by Eliza Berman *  Apr 30, 2015 ## [39 Photos That Captured the Human Side of the Vietnam War](https://time.com/3767354/vietnam-war-1965/) by Eliza Berman *  Apr 13, 2015 ## [Life Before Equal Pay Day: Portrait of a Working Mother in the 1950s](https://time.com/3759822/working-mother/) by Eliza Berman *  Mar 5, 2015 ## [A Portrait of Old Age in America in the Pre-Medicare Era](https://time.com/3728617/old-age/) by Eliza Berman *  Feb 11, 2015 ## [The Photos That Gave Americans Their First Glimpse of Apartheid in 1950](https://time.com/3668247/apartheid-photo-essay-life/) by John Edwin Mason *  Jan 29, 2015 ## ['Wow, Quel Babes!': American Teenagers in Paris in the 1950s](https://time.com/3659717/american-teenagers-paris/) by John Edwin Mason *  Oct 23, 2014 ## [Under a Mississippi Sun: Portraits of Depression-Era Sharecroppers](https://time.com/3525476/under-a-mississippi-sun-portraits-of-depression-era-sharecroppers/) by Ben Cosgrove *  Sep 28, 2014 ## ['Career Girl' Gwyned Filling: Classic Photos by Leonard McCombe](https://time.com/3456235/career-girl-portrait-of-a-young-womans-life-in-1948-new-york/) by Ben Cosgrove *  Sep 21, 2014 ## [Revisiting Gordon Parks' Classic Photo Essay, 'Harlem Gang Leader'](https://time.com/3461593/revisiting-gordon-parks-classic-photo-essay-harlem-gang-leader/) by John Edwin Mason *  Sep 2, 2014 ## [LIFE With Postwar Teens: Photos of Fads From Around the U.S. in 1948](https://time.com/3722182/life-with-postwar-teens-photos-of-fads-from-around-the-u-s-in-1948/) by Ben Cosgrove *  Oct 3, 2013 ## ['Two Lives Lost to Heroin': A Harrowing, Early Portrait of Addicts](https://time.com/3731579/two-lives-lost-to-heroin-a-harrowing-early-portrait-of-addicts/) by Ben Cosgrove *  Jul 21, 2013 ## [W. Eugene Smith's Landmark Photo Essay, 'Nurse Midwife'](https://time.com/26789/w-eugene-smith-life-magazine-1951-photo-essay-nurse-midwife/) by Ben Cosgrove *  Jun 3, 2013 ## [Hemingway in Cuba, 1952: Portrait of a Legend in Decline](https://time.com/3638572/hemingway-in-cuba-1952-portrait-of-a-legend-in-decline/) by Ben Cosgrove *  May 24, 2013 ## [Fighting Teen Pregnancy: Portrait of a Radical High School Program, 1971](https://time.com/3667070/teen-pregnancy-high-school-1971/) by Ben Cosgrove ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/"},"name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/life-photo-essay/","name":"LIFE Photo Essay"}}]}] ```