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LIFE Cover Portraits by Philippe Halsman
Of all the 20th century photographers who made a name for themselves almost exclusively from their portrait work, few managed to capture as dizzying an array of subjects as adroitly as the Latvian-born...
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In Praise of Emoticons … But, You Know, the Living Kind
Most everyone who has ever sent or received more than, say, eight emails over the past several decades is probably familiar with emoticons. Or rather, most of us are familiar with one particular...
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Down, Not Out, in London: LIFE in the Underground, 1940
London’s monumental Metropolitan Railway opened on January 9, 1863, and the very next day the general public was permitted to ride the trains for the first time. The dauntless and, for Victorian...
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Winston Churchill at Leisure: Portraits of the Private Man
On May 10, 1940, as Hitler’s Germany was invading Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg, the British Conservative leader Winston Churchill took the reins of a coalition government after his predecessor,...
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Remembering ‘The Few’: Photos of the Young Pilots Who Saved England
“The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in...
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