Life
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21 February 2012, 1:40 pm
The monuments and the museums, the pulsing crowds on Fifth Avenue, opera at the Met and stickball in Spanish Harlem, sardines on the subway and the romantic urban vistas of Central Park: Over the years LIFE’s photographers explored every corner [...]...
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21 February 2012, 1:10 pm
In the midst of the strangest primary season in memory, LIFE looks at candidates — the revered, the reviled and the long-forgotten — on the campaign trail, and pays fond tribute to the perpetual carnival that is American politics....
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21 February 2012, 1:00 pm
Shortly before Berlin fell in the spring of '45, marking the end of WWII in Europe, LIFE photographer William Vandivert made his way to the German capital -- and to the ruined bunker where Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun spent their last, desperate hours....
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20 February 2012, 5:57 pm
In 1938, LIFE sent photographer William Vandivert to New Orleans to cover the debauchery, whimsy and unalloyed fun of Mardi Gras. Seven decades later, LIFE.com presents unpublished pictures from the Big Easy....
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15 February 2012, 4:14 pm
From Jesse James and Butch Cassidy to Scarface and Tony Soprano, outlaws have always held a singularly ambiguous place in America’s popular imagination: we fear and loathe gangsters’ appetite for violence; we envy and covet their freedom. In early 1965, [...]...
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15 February 2012, 1:00 am
Alfred Eisenstaedt's photographic vision wasn't limited to the intimate pictures he made of the 20th century's most famous faces. Here, a celebration of the great photographer's unexpected and singularly charming self-portraits....
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14 February 2012, 1:30 pm
On the anniversary of Malcolm X's 1965 assassination, LIFE.com presents Eve Arnold's photographs of the intensely charismatic street thug-turned-devout Muslim and activist, in public and in private....
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14 February 2012, 12:28 pm
In the spring of 1963, Steve McQueen was on the brink of superstardom, already popular from his big-screen breakout as one of The Magnificent Seven and just a couple months away from entering the Badass Hall of Fame with the [...]...
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13 February 2012, 10:36 am
On a spring night in May 1958, LIFE photographer Robert W. Kelley shot a few rolls of film at an intimate jazz gig in New York City. Those photographs, featuring musical legends-in-the-making, were never published. Until now....
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13 February 2012, 10:12 am
In September 1945 a beloved movie star — now a decorated WWII hero — returned to his quiet hometown in Pennsylvania. LIFE was there to chronicle the utterly wholesome goings on....
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