50 Years Ago at Cannes: Rare Photos From 1962
Maybe it’s the setting. It’s probably the setting. It has to be the setting. After all, Sundance has snow-capped mountains (lovely and picturesque). Berlin has the Brandenburg Gate (monumental and...
View ArticleLIFE Goes to the Louvre, 1953
When it comes to the excellence of their collections, the beauty of their galleries and the sheer breadth of their cultural significance, few museums on earth can match Paris’ monumental jewel, the...
View ArticleLIFE With Matisse: Portraits of a Modernist Master, 1951
On Tuesday, December 4, New York’s Metropolitan Museum will unveil a relatively small but, by all accounts, revelatory exhibition of works by one of the true giants of 20th-century Modernism. Comprised...
View ArticleLIFE at Lascaux: Early Color Photos From Another World
The story is so improbable, so marvelous, that it feels more like the remnant of a dream, or a half-remembered myth, rather than something that unfolded within living memory … September 12, 1940. A...
View ArticleLIFE Behind the Picture: Picasso ‘Draws’ With Light
When LIFE magazine’s Gjon Mili, a technical prodigy and lighting innovator, visited Pablo Picasso in the South of France in 1949, it was clear that the meeting of these two artists and craftsmen was...
View ArticleLIFE at the 1953 Tour de France: Rare Photos of a Sport Spectacle
When it comes to sustained, frenzied fan enthusiasm around an athletic spectacle, few contests anywhere can match the Tour de France. Yes, the World Cup and the Olympics are phenomenal, and...
View ArticleLIFE at the Liberation of Paris: A Photographer’s Story
In the long, cruel struggle of World War II, opportunities for jubilation were scarce. But even among the era’s handful of “wish you were there” moments — the American victory in the Battle of Midway,...
View ArticleBefore and After D-Day: LIFE in England and France, 1944
It’s no mystery why images of unremitting violence spring to mind when one hears the deceptively simple term, “D-Day.” We’ve all seen — in photos, movies, old news reels — what happened on the beaches...
View ArticleStage Fright: LIFE at Paris’ Grand Guignol Theater, 1947
Haunted houses are, of course, a Halloween staple. Ghosts, ghouls, pirates (why pirates?) and other assorted creatures pop out from beneath floorboards, hang from ceilings, gibber and moan behind...
View ArticleLIFE Behind the Picture: Children at a Puppet Theater, Paris, 1963
Forget the fabled rudeness of the Parisians. Forget the crowds of tourists who flock to the City of Light in the summer, making the city’s winding streets, echoing stone churches and public gardens all...
View ArticleThe Practice of Medicine, Perfected: Portrait of a Doctor, France, 1953
So much has been written about the American healthcare system in recent years — in short, that it’s an insanely byzantine, profit-driven train wreck — that it’s hardly worth recounting the various and,...
View ArticleGermany Surrenders at Reims, May 7, 1945: A Photographer’s Story
On a rainy Saturday night in early May, 1945, LIFE photographer Ralph Morse was working in his hotel room in Paris, writing captions for a series of photos he’d made a few days earlier, when a U.S....
View ArticleLIFE at Cannes: Photos From the World’s Most Glamorous Film Festival
Maybe it’s the setting. It’s probably the setting. It has to be the setting. After all, Sundance has snow-capped mountains (lovely and picturesque). Berlin has the Brandenburg Gate (monumental and...
View ArticleThe Ruins of Normandy: Unpublished Color Photos From France, 1944
The ruins left behind after warfare speak a language of their own. And, even more strikingly, no matter where the conflict has taken place — whether it’s in northern Europe or the South Pacific, the...
View ArticleBehind the Picture: Picasso ‘Draws’ With Light
When LIFE magazine’s Gjon Mili, a technical prodigy and lighting innovator, visited Pablo Picasso in the South of France in 1949, it was clear that the meeting of these two artists and craftsmen was...
View ArticleLIFE Behind the Picture: Children at a Puppet Show, Paris, 1963
Forget the fabled rudeness of the Parisians. Forget the crowds of tourists who flock to the City of Light in the summer, making the city’s winding streets, echoing stone churches and public gardens all...
View ArticleBrassaï in Paris: A Photographer’s Love Letter to the City of Light
It’s unlikely that any single artist has ever been — or ever will be — as intimately associated with Paris as the Hungarian-born photographer, writer and filmmaker Gyula Halász, known to the world as...
View ArticleThe Eiffel Tower at 125: A Paris Landmark Captured in a Classic Photo
The popular French writer Guy de Maupassant (1850 – 1893) reportedly ate lunch in the Eiffel Tower’s restaurant every day for years — not because he loved the great iron monument but because, so the...
View ArticleLIFE at Cannes: Classic Photos From the World’s Most Glamorous Film Fest
Maybe it’s the setting. It’s probably the setting. It has to be the setting. After all, Sundance has snow-capped mountains (lovely and picturesque). Berlin has the Brandenburg Gate (monumental and...
View ArticleRare Photos From the Allied Invasion of Southern France, 1944
One of the pleasures (and privileges) of sharing the stories behind LIFE photographs is that, occasionally, people contact us with their own pictures and stories from signature events of the last...
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