Ben Cosgrove

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35 of the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Album Covers of All Time

A new book conveys, in one volume, the mind-bending creativity and energy that defined rock album covers through the years.

By Ben Cosgrove

The Manson Family's California Hovels: Scenes From the Bottomless Pit

Decades after the Manson Family murders, here are photos of the squalor in which the killers lived

By Ben Cosgrove

JFK in Germany, 1963: Rare and Classic Photos

Fifty years after John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, LIFE.com recalls not only that one moment, but the look and feel -- the unprecedented energy -- of his 1963 European visit.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE Goes to 'Genius School,' 1948

In the 1940s, LIFE visited a 'genius school' in New York -- a school filled with kids who just happened to enjoy stratospheric IQs

By Ben Cosgrove

Marilyn Monroe: Rare Early Photos, 1950

In 1950, LIFE photographer Ed Clark received a call from a friend who worked at 20th Century Fox. The friend was raving about "a hot tomato" the studio recently signed: one Marilyn Monroe.

By Ben Cosgrove

The Photo That Won World War II: 'Dead Americans at Buna Beach,' 1943

The story behind the famous WWII photo of three dead American soldiers half-buried in the sand at a place called Buna Beach

By Ben Cosgrove

Anatomy of an A-Bomb Test, 1946

A series of Fritz Goro photographs made before, during and, especially, after two July 1946 atomic blasts at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

By Ben Cosgrove

Georgia O'Keeffe: Invincible

John Loengard's 1967 portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe captures the artist's dignity and her singular place in the American consciousness

By Ben Cosgrove

Burger, She Ate: A Portrait of Angela Lansbury at Lunch

Even when simply eating a pedestrian lunch in a studio cafeteria, Angela Lansbury somehow made it look quite remarkably dramatic.

By Ben Cosgrove

Che Guevara: The Rorschach Revolutionary

The complexity of Guevara's legacy is in many ways far more fascinating, and more telling, than any litany of mere facts about his life

By Ben Cosgrove

Smiles in Quarantine: Remembering Apollo 11 After Splashdown

Photos of Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin interacting with family members and with the president are about as different in tone from the somber images of quarantined ebola patients as one is likely to find.

By Ben Cosgrove

'How a Wife Should Undress': Dubious Advice From 1930s Strippers

A skeptical look back at a New York "school of undressing" with a faculty of burlesque stars dedicated to proper "disrobing methodology"

By Ben Cosgrove

Marilyn Monroe at Home: Color Portraits

LIFE.com presents color photos of the movie legend at her Hollywood home in 1953, when she was just 26 years old.

By Ben Cosgrove

World War I Posters: The Graphic Art of Propaganda

The countless recruitment and propaganda posters produced during World War I were marvels of graphic design, created with one aim in mind: to get the viewer to stop, read -- and act.

By Ben Cosgrove

Under a Mississippi Sun: Portraits of Depression-Era Sharecroppers

Alfred Eisenstaedt's remarkable photos of sharecroppers working their plots of soil on the Delta & Pine Land Co. plantation in Scott, Miss., in the midst of the Great Depression.

By Ben Cosgrove

Electric Cars: Just Around the Corner for a Long, Long Time

LIFE.com recalls a magazine article from almost 50 years ago that more or less announced that the Electric Car Age had arrived.

By Ben Cosgrove

Oscar de la Renta: Legendary Designer, Enduring Tastemaker

Looking back on the enduring frankness of a singular talent

By Ben Cosgrove

World War II Erupts: Color Photos From the Invasion of Poland, 1939

Color pictures, made by Hitler's personal photographer, of a vanquished Poland in the fall of 1939

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE With Hedy Lamarr: Stardom, Scandal and One Amazing Invention

Hedy Lamarr was a glamorous movie star of the 1930s and '40s, a taboo-breaking beauty credited with simulating the first on-screen orgasm. She was also a brilliant inventor.

By Ben Cosgrove

Inventing the Future, One Sublime, Ridiculous Contraption at a Time

Photos of kooky inventions in 1947 that nicely convey both the creativity and the absurdity inherent in a consumerist culture.

By Ben Cosgrove
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