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LIFE Watches TV: Classic Photos of People and Their Television Sets

Unapologetically celebrating what is arguably America's true national pastime: watching TV

By Ben Cosgrove

Dick Clark: An American Life

In memory of a steady fixture on the American music scene across six tumultuous decades, LIFE.com offers a selection of photographs from a new book that celebrates a man who loved what he did, and who shared that enduring enthusiasm with generations.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE at the Oscars: Classic Photos From Hollywood's Biggest Night

From Beatty to Brando, Bogart to Bacall, LIFE captured some of Oscar's finest moments

By Ben Cosgrove

Elizabeth Taylor: Photos From a Legendary Life

Photos of the Hollywood icon as a teenager, as a young bride and in the days when she was simply the biggest movie star in the world.

By Ben Cosgrove

Mardi Gras: Rare Vintage Photos From America's Most Famous Party

In 1938, LIFE sent photographer William Vandivert to New Orleans to cover the debauchery, whimsy and unalloyed fun of Mardi Gras.

By Ben Cosgrove

The Nutty Ambassador: An American Puppeteer in India, 1962

LIFE celebrates the work of one of the all-time great American puppeteers: the brilliant and irreverent Bil Baird.

By Ben Cosgrove

In Praise of the 'Powder Puff Derby'

On the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Thoroughbred Racing Associations, LIFE offers a lighthearted look at racing back in the day, through the lens of a single race: the all-female "Powder Puff Derby."

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE With Dior: Rare Photos From the Birth of the 'New Look'

When these photos were taken in 1948, Christian Dior was in the process of launching a couture revolution and reinventing high fashion

By Ben Cosgrove

1967: Pictures From a Pivotal Year

That the 1960s still hold remarkable sway over the American psyche is hardly a matter of debate. How people respond to the decade’s grip on the national imagination, on the other hand — well, that’s...

By Ben Cosgrove

The Beatles Take America, 1964

On the anniversary of the Beatles' first performance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964, a selection of photos from the group's arrival on America's shores

By Ben Cosgrove

Behind the Scenes at the 1972 Oscars

In March 1972, LIFE sent photographer Bill Eppridge to chronicle the run-up to that year's Oscars. Here, LIFE.com presents behind-the-scenes photos from his shoot

By Ben Cosgrove

Miles Davis: Photos of a Jazz Giant in 1958

On a spring night in May 1958, LIFE photographer Robert W. Kelley shot a few rolls of film at an intimate jazz gig in New York City. Those photographs, featuring musical legends-in-the-making, were never published. Until now.

By Ben Cosgrove

Giants at Play: LIFE With Jazz Legends

Rare and classic photos of Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young and other jazz legends playing at photographer Gjon Mili's "smoky sweaty barn of a studio" in the 1940s.

By Ben Cosgrove

Unhappy Returns: Portraits of Miserable, Anxious Taxpayers

Photos of taxpayers at an IRS information center in 1944 New York reaffirm the old adage that the more things change, the more they remain — for better or worse — very much the same.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE With Jackie Kennedy: The First Lady Wows India in 1962

A series of photographs — many of which never ran in LIFE — that capture a young woman, wife, mother and fashion icon-in-the-making during her 1962 trip to India.

By Ben Cosgrove

1940 Census: A Test Run in Indiana

Age? Income? Mortgage? Toilet? Bathtub? Radio?Thus did LIFE magazine kick off a lengthy article in its March 18, 1940, issue featuring photographs from a “test census” in Indiana’s St. Joseph and Marshall counties in the...

By Ben Cosgrove

Happy Leap Day!

In honor of Leap Day 2012, LIFE offers a gallery of pictures celebrating the simple act of leaping around, and the sense of boundless possibilities that one extra day on the calendar can sometimes ignite.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE and Civil Rights: Segregation in 1956 South Carolina

LIFE.com presents rare color photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, shedding light on an era that, for better and for worse, helped define America in the middle part of the 20th century.

By Ben Cosgrove

W. Eugene Smith's Landmark Portrait: 'Country Doctor'

'Country Doctor' was an instant classic when first published in LIFE in 1948, establishing W. Eugene Smith as a master of the photo essay

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE Celebrates Artists and Their Models

A gallery of pictures by LIFE's finest photographers paying tribute to the artist at work, and the simple, beautiful, living human form that so often serves as art's most enduringly reliable muse.

By Ben Cosgrove
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