Ben Cosgrove

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Bigotry in the USA: Photos From a Ku Klux Klan Initiation

In May 1946, LIFE magazine ran a series of remarkable pictures from a Klan initiation in Georgia, at the start of what's known as the "Third Klan era."

By Ben Cosgrove

'Drama of Life Before Birth': Lennart Nilsson's Landmark 1965 Photo Essay

With the news that a woman in Sweden has given birth with a transplanted womb, LIFE recalls Lennart Nilsson's mind-boggling "Drama of Life Before Birth" photographs.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE at the Vatican: Unearthing History Beneath St. Peter's

Color and black and white images — most of which never ran in LIFE magazine — shot by Nat Farbman for a March 1950 feature titled "The Search for the Bones of St. Peter."

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE With Dem Bums: Spring Training at Dodgertown, 1948

A series of pictures — most of which never ran in LIFE — from the Dodgers' storied spring training camp serve, 65 years later, as a welcome reminder of why so many of us first fell in love with the game in the first place.

By Ben Cosgrove

Slow Ride: LIFE Visits a British Snail-Watching Society

Most of us go through our days blissfully unconcerned with what snails, near and far, large and small, might be up to. But not the British Snail-Watching Society. They're paying attention.

By Ben Cosgrove

Mourning FDR: In a Classic Photo, the Face of a Nation's Loss

In Ed Clark's unforgettable picture of one man's grief at the death of a president, we see -- and feel -- a nation's measureless loss.

By Ben Cosgrove

Syria in 1940: Crossroads of the Middle East During WWII

LIFE.com recalls Damascus, Homs, Aleppo and other Syrian cities and towns as they appeared in the middle part of the last century.

By Ben Cosgrove

Happy 80th Birthday, Nina Simone: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer

On what would have been Nina Simone's 80th birthday, LightBox celebrates her life and her legacy with a series of Alfred Wertheimer's magnificent, intimate portraits of the star.

By Ben Cosgrove

True Romance: The Heartache of Wartime Farewells, 1943

On Valentine's Day, LIFE.com presents a series of photos that capture the sadness and tenderness of lovers bidding farewell at New York's old Penn Station, at the height of the Second World War.

By Ben Cosgrove

'I Was in LIFE': Kim Novak Remembers

Kim Novak, Hollywood legend, speaks with LIFE.com about what it was like to appear in LIFE magazine when she was an up-and-coming actress.

By Ben Cosgrove

Westminster Dog Show: Photos of Champs and Also-Rans, 1950s and 1960s

As the 2015 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show descends on New York's Madison Square Garden, LIFE presents a series of photos of dogs from the '50s and '60s who bit at that coveted brass ring.

By Ben Cosgrove

Iwo Jima: Rare and Classic Photos From the Pacific in World War II

LIFE.com presents a series of photos — many of which never ran in LIFE magazine — made in the Pacific by the great W. Eugene Smith near the tail end of World War II.

By Ben Cosgrove

Rare Photos From the Set of 'Porgy and Bess'

Not too many musical classics have experienced the sort of polar-opposite reactions from audiences and critics that Porgy and Bess has elicited ever since it debuted on Broadway in 1935.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE With Zsa Zsa Gabor: Rare Photos

LIFE.com presents a series of photos — most of which never ran in LIFE — from 1951, when Zsa Zsa Gabor was still a relative unknown in the U.S.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE at the Oscars: Rare Rehearsal Photos From 1958

LIFE's Leonard McCombe captured stars from Paul Newman to Zsa Zsa Gabor rehearsing for the big event in 1958.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE on Both Sides of the Camera: Eisenstaedt's Surprising Self-Portraits

Alfred Eisenstaedt's photographic vision wasn't limited to the intimate pictures he made of the 20th century's most famous faces. Here, a celebration of the great photographer's unexpected and singularly charming self-portraits.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE and Civil Rights: Anatomy of a Protest, Virginia, 1960

LIFE.com presents a gallery of photos -- many of which never ran in LIFE magazine -- from a series of protests and sit-ins in Petersburg, Virginia, in May 1960.

By Ben Cosgrove

Portraits of Schoolkids Learning Firearm Safety in Rural Indiana, 1956

LIFE revisits a 1956 article on gun safety in Indiana, featuring photos of a trooper instructing schoolchildren in how to handle firearms.

By Ben Cosgrove

What America's War on Drugs Looked Like in 1969

With pot sales now legal in Colorado, LIFE.com recalls the early days of America's War on Drugs -- and the arguments both for and against legalization from four decades ago.

By Ben Cosgrove

Gathering of the Faithful: LIFE at India's Colossal Kumbh Mela, 1953

Photos that capture something of the raw intensity and almost overwhelmingly sacral nature of the Kumbh Mela in 1953.

By Ben Cosgrove
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