14 July 1936 | Willy Ronis

One million people marched in Paris on July 14 1936, to celebrate the Bastille holiday and celebrate the victory of Front Populaire in the general…

The Coffins, 2004

. In 1991, when his gruesome photo of a dead Iraqi soldier burnt in tank during the Gulf War was published, Ken Jarecke…

Dovima With Elephants, Paris, 1955

When Richard Avedon photographed Dovima at a Paris circus in 1955 for Harper’s Bazaar, both were already prominent in their fields. She was…

Michael Jordan, 1984

It may be the most famous silhouette ever photographed. Shooting Michael Jordan for LIFE in 1984, Jacobus “Co” Rentmeester captured the basketball star…

The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death, 1855

While little is remembered of the Crimean War—that nearly three-year conflict that pitted England, France, Turkey and Sardinia-Piedmont against Russia—coverage of it radically…

The Steerage, 1907

As a leader of the Photo-Secession movement, Alfred Stieglitz searched for beauty through the craftsmanlike creation of photographs, held pioneering exhibitions of his…

Couple In Raccoon Coats, 1932

To many white Americans in the 1930s, black people were little more than domestics or sharecroppers. They were ignored, invisible, forgotten. But that…

Artist Profile: Nancy Burson

Nancy Burson arrived at the scene in 1948 St. Louis to take part in the rise of new media art and the technological…

Untitled (Cowboy), 1989

The idea for the project that would challenge everything sacred about ownership in photography came to Richard Prince when he was working in…

The Hague Conference for the Codification of International Law (1930)

Codification of International Law, customary law, Hague Conference, hague convention on nationality 1930, territorial waters, the 1930 hague codification conference focused on what…

Fort Peck Dam, 1936

It was to quickly become the most influential news and photography magazine of its time, and LIFE’s ­November 1936 debut issue proudly announced…

Photos That Changed The World – Steamfitter

Steamfitter (1920) by Lewis Hine Discover how Lewis Hine’s power-plant worker captured the dignity of industrial labour for the first time Did this…