Ben Cosgrove

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LIFE With Joe DiMaggio: Early Photos of a Baseball Phenom

On his 100th birthday, LIFE remembers Joe DiMaggio with photos made in 1939, when the Yankee Clipper was a 24-year-old star

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE Goes to a Republican Women's Bacchanal

Recalling the night when the Young Women's Republican Club of Milford, Conn., discovered the pleasures of tobacco, poker … and strip tease

By Ben Cosgrove

The Best of LIFE: 37 Years in Pictures

A selection of photos from LIFE magazine's storied archives: a photo a year from four decades of unparalleled excellence

By Ben Cosgrove

'Concentration Camps for Dogs': Revisiting a Grisly LIFE Classic

Recalling a 1966 LIFE article that cast a cold light on an industry in which dogs were bought, stolen and sold like cogs in a machine

By Ben Cosgrove

The Fire Last Time: LIFE in Watts, 1966

A year after the Watts Riots in 1965, LIFE magazine revisited the neighborhood through a series of color pictures by photographer Bill Ray.

By Ben Cosgrove and Liz Ronk

Portraits of the Artists: Painters and Sculptors by LIFE Photographers

LIFE.com presents a series of portraits that help us see something — even if it's only a glimpse — of the human beings behind some of the 20th century's most vital works of art.

By Ben Cosgrove

The Great Blizzard of 1947: Photos of New York, Buried in White

Recalling the historic blizzard of 1947 with photos that ran in LIFE, and many other pictures that were never published in the magazine

By Ben Cosgrove

Battle of the Bulge: Rare Photos From Hitler's Last Gamble

Photos -- many of which never ran in LIFE magazine -- from the final, failed German offensive on the Western Front in World War II.

By Ben Cosgrove

Silence Visible: This Is What the Sound of WWI's Ceasefire 'Looked' Like

For a quite stark, simple image, this reproduction of a few seconds' worth of data on a century-old recording tape is remarkably eloquent -- and surprisingly moving

By Ben Cosgrove

Tony Bennett: Rare Photos From an American Life

A new book features rare photos of the singer, his family and his famous musical peers — with many of the pictures culled from the vast Sony Music archives

By Ben Cosgrove

World War II in Color: The Italian Campaign and the Road to Rome

LIFE.com presents rare and classic color photos made during World War II's pivotal Italian Campaign.

By Ben Cosgrove

Remembering 'The Few': Photos of the RAF Pilots Who Saved England

Portraits of the young fliers, from many nations, who helped save England during the Battle of Britain.

By Ben Cosgrove

Matisse: Portraits of a Modernist Master, 1951

Classic photographs of Henri Matisse -- most of which never ran in LIFE magazine -- by the great Ukrainian-born photographer Dmitri Kessel

By Ben Cosgrove

Northern Lights: Vintage Color Photos of Nature's Great Light Show

Celebrating the glorious northern lights with a series of color pictures made by J.R. Eyerman in northern Canada in 1953

By Ben Cosgrove

Out of This World: Ron Miller's Spectacular Space Art

One of the most prolific and celebrated space artists of our time, Ron Miller, shares 33 of his own stirring, beautiful works with LIFE

By Ben Cosgrove

World War II in Color: American Bombers and Their Crews, 1942

Color photographs from England in 1942 by the indomitable Margaret Bourke-White, chronicling American B-24 and B-17 crews gearing up for war in the skies above Nazi-controlled Europe.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE With Natalie Wood: Portraits of a Legend

LIFE.com presents photos of Natalie Wood in the early '60s — a time when she had made the leap from actress to movie star and, more importantly, to formidable Hollywood player.

By Ben Cosgrove

Tina Turner: Unpublished Photos of the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll

LIFE.com presents previously unpublished photos taken in 1970 by Gjon Mili

By Ben Cosgrove

Veronica Lake: Movie Star, Hollywood Rebel, 'Sex Zombie'

Her life was not destined for a storybook ending, but Veronica Lake left behind at least a few films -- and a unique persona -- that endure.

By Ben Cosgrove

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

Carl Mydans' photograph of Gen. Douglas MacArthur at Luzon distills something elemental about MacArthur's larger-than-life persona

By Ben Cosgrove
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