Ben Cosgrove

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K-Pop Pioneers: The Kim Sisters Take America

In the late 1950s, three young singers left the hard times of postwar Korea to seek their fortune in the West -- and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams

By Ben Cosgrove

JFK Assassination: Photos of John and Jackie Kennedy in Texas, 1963

On the anniversary of JFK's assassination, photos made in the hours before -- and the moments immediately after -- the killing that shocked the world.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE Rides With Hells Angels, 1965

In 1965, LIFE photographer Bill Ray spent weeks with the Hells Angels, but his amazing photos never ran in the magazine. Fifty years later, here they are

By Ben Cosgrove

Dancers at the Moulin Rouge: Vintage Color Photos

Color pictures made in the late 1950s -- none of them published in LIFE magazine -- featuring the cabaret's celebrated dancers

By Ben Cosgrove

Photographer Spotlight: J.R. Eyerman

A tribute to J.R. Eyerman's long career with a series of pictures that display the man's dizzying versatility, talent and technical prowess

By Ben Cosgrove

Classic Photos of Bob Hope, American Wisecracker

A look back at the career of the beloved comedian, who was born on May 29, 1903

By Ben Cosgrove

Edwin Hubble: Portrait of a Genius at Work, 1937

Revisiting a 1937 photograph of the astronomer Edwin Hubble -- arguably the single greatest photo ever made of a scientist at work

By Ben Cosgrove

A Squirrel's Guide to Fashion

Photos chronicling the adventures and sartorial splendor of an orphaned -- and, in 1940s America, a celebrated -- gray squirrel

By Ben Cosgrove

JFK's Assassination: How LIFE Brought the Zapruder Film to Light

Legendary editor Dick Stolley recalls how he tracked down and purchased the Zapruder film of JFK's assassination for LIFE magazine in 1963

By Ben Cosgrove

The Woman in Hitler's Bathtub: Lee Miller, Munich, 1945

Former LIFE photographer David E. Scherman talks about taking his famous picture of Lee Miller in Adolf Hitler's bathtub in 1945 Munich.

By Ben Cosgrove

Before and After D-Day: Color Photos From England and France

Masterfully restored color photos from England and France in 1944 that feel at-once familiar and utterly new

By Ben Cosgrove

Rare Photos From the Early Years of Bill Graham's Career

LIFE.com presents a series of photos -- none of which ran in LIFE magazine -- of the Rev. Billy Graham from the earliest days of the legendary evangelist's career.

By Ben Cosgrove

Marlon Brando: Early Photos of a Legend in the Making

Photos -- most of which never ran in LIFE magazine -- of an electrifying young actor on the brink of stardom

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE With Steve McQueen: Photos of the King of Cool in 1963

Photos of the legendary Steve McQueen riding motorcycles, camping, working out and shooting guns in the desert with his wife in 1963.

By Ben Cosgrove

'Day of German Art': Nazi Propaganda and the Hyping of 'Aryan' Culture

Color photos from "A Day of German Art," a kind of Aryan-inflected kickoff for the Third Reich's annual Great German Art Exhibition

By Ben Cosgrove

JFK's Funeral: Photos From a Day of Shock and Grief

Fifty years after JFK's assassination shook the world, photos -- many of which never ran in LIFE magazine -- from his 1963 funeral

By Ben Cosgrove

Behind the Picture: Joe Demler, WWII's 'Human Skeleton'

Joe Demler was 19 years old and weighed just 70 pounds when LIFE's John Florea took his picture in a notorious German POW camp in 1945

By Ben Cosgrove

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Photos From the Ruins

LIFE photographs -- resembling every war-battered panorama from Verdun to Vietnam -- made in September, 1945, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By Ben Cosgrove

Unforgettable Eisenstaedt: 22 Amazing Photos by a Master

Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898–1995), the man behind some of the most memorable pictures of the 20th century, was a professional photographer for almost 70 years. He started working in photography in Weimar Germany in the 1920s....

By Ben Cosgrove

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

A striking 1951 portrait of what, at first glance, might be a shadow-shrouded cyborg -- complete with mismatched lenses for eyes -- is among the best-known pictures ever to appear in LIFE magazine.

By Ben Cosgrove
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