Liz Ronk

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Air America: Picturing the United States From Above

Sixty years after Margaret Bourke-White climbed aboard various "whirlibirds" -- a.k.a., helicopters -- to make a series of singular, vertiginous photos of America as seen from above, her pictures can still startle and delight.

By Liz Ronk

Photos of the Cast of 'Hair' Before the Show Stormed Broadway

On the anniversary of the April 1968 Broadway debut of 'Hair,' LIFE pays tribute to the self-proclaimed 'American Tribal Love-Rock Musical' with photos from rehearsals prior to that legendary opening night.

By Liz Ronk

The American Northwest: Vintage Color Photos From an Epic Road Trip

J.R. Eyerman spent weeks in late 1960 traveling throughout Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and as far south as San Francisco for LIFE magazine's tribute to "the stunning majesty of the Northwest."

By Liz Ronk

Ella and Friends: Portraits of the Queen of Jazz and Other Greats

On Ella Fitzgerald's birthday, LIFE.com celebrates the one and only Queen of Jazz and other musical icons, as seen through photographer Eliot Elisofon's singular lens.

By Liz Ronk

On 'Moment of Laughter Day,' See Charlie Chaplin Busting a Gut

Need a good laugh? You're in luck. April 14 is International Moment of Laughter Day, a holiday dreamed up by writer, professional speaker and "humor consultant" Izzy Gesell.

By Liz Ronk

When the Bible Meets the Media: How LIFE Magazine 'Illustrated' the Psalms

Photos of the Holy Land, combined with excerpts from the Book of Psalms, provide an example of how, 50 years ago, one media outlet addressed the eternally thorny issue of faith.

By Liz Ronk

Brassaï in Paris: A Photographer's Love Letter to the City of Light

On the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Eiffel Tower -- that grand, graceful emblem of Paris -- LIFE.com presents a handful of pictures from a new book, 'Brassaï: For the Love of Paris.'

By Liz Ronk

LIFE Behind the Picture: Children at a Puppet Show, Paris, 1963

LIFE.com celebrates Paris in the spring through the lens of Alfred Eisenstaedt's famous puppet-show picture -- and many more photos of Parisians and their city made around the same time.

By Liz Ronk

The Wonderful World of Witches: Portraits of Modern English Pagans

In the early 1960s -- in the U.S., at least -- the notion of grown men and women getting naked in order to practice their religion would likely have blown a goodly number of puritanical minds. So . . . LIFE blew some minds.

By Liz Ronk

Mount Vesuvius: Photos From the Volcano's Last Great Eruption

The last major eruption of Vesuvius happened exactly 70 years ago, in the midst of World War II — and was photographed by the great British photographer and Magnum founder member, George Rodger.

By Liz Ronk

Our Parents' Wedding Was in LIFE! (and Here Are Photos to Prove It)

After a reader contacted LIFE.com and let us know that her parents' 1937 wedding was featured in LIFE magazine, we went looking for the pictures -- and eureka! We found 'em.

By Liz Ronk

Tasty: John Dominis' Classic Food Photography

Fifty years ago, in its Jan. 31, 1964, issue, LIFE magazine launched its famous (among foodies, anyway) "Great Dinners" series, and helped re-imagine what food photography could be.

By Liz Ronk

Lost City: Portraits of New York Before 9/11 Changed Everything

George Forss' pre-9/11 photographs of New York City are both a celebration of, and an elegy for, a lost world.

By Liz Ronk

Hitler at 50: Color Photos From a Despot's Garish Birthday Bash

Rare color pictures from the over-the-top celebrations that marked Hitler's 50th birthday (April 20, 1939), as well as some of the obscenely gaudy gifts bestowed on the German leader by his peers and sycophants.

By Liz Ronk

LIFE's Best Convention Photos: The GOP

LIFE magazine's best photos from Republican National Conventions through the decades, from 1944-1968.

By Liz Ronk

Genius in the Details: Revisiting an Iconic Photo of Albert Einstein's Office

LIFE.com looks at a famous picture taken in Albert Einstein's Princeton office -- exactly as he left it -- mere hours after the great theoretical physicist and 20th-century icon died in 1955.

By Liz Ronk

Curiouser and Curiouser: LIFE Magazine's World of Miscellany, 1952

LIFE.com offers the first edition of a planned series of galleries paying fond tribute to Miscellany, the back-of-the-magazine photo feature that delighted LIFE readers for decades.

By Liz Ronk

Winter Olympics Flashback: Photos From the Innsbruck Games, 1964

Amid all the drama about who will win, and by what margin, so much about the Olympics remains comfortingly, thrillingly the same, year after year.

By Liz Ronk

Behind the Picture: Albert Schweitzer in Africa

LIFE.com republishes a W. Eugene Smith photo essay from 1954 that helped to fix Schweitzer's work in the public mind for decades to come.

By Liz Ronk

The Allies at Anzio: Rare Photos From WWII's Italian Campaign

On the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II's pivotal Battle of Anzio, LIFE presents photographs -- many never published before -- from that hard-won Allied victory.

By Liz Ronk
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