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It was a bold notion to name a magazine LIFE. The word life, after all, encompasses everything. The major events that define generations, the fleeting moments that comprise the everyday, the feelings …

The cultural influences from music, movies, theater, and design that have helped shaped the world we live in today.

6 days ago · Here’s how LIFE described the social life there in a story in its June 4, 1945 issue: …At Connecticut College, girls have more boyfriends than in the palmy days when the college derived …

Written By: Bill Syken Co Rentmeester took countless memorable photographs during his years as a LIFE photographer, on a wide range of subjects, from the Watts riots to the war in Vietnam to snow …

Explore Catherine Deneuve within the LIFE photography vault, one of the most prestigious & privately held archives from the US & around the World.

LIFE was very much aware of this change as it was happening, and worried that it was bad for the country. The magazine fretted in 1948 that the decline of the family farm might also signal the decline …

See photographs and read stories about global icons - the actors, athletes, politicians, and community members that make our world come to life.

s Walter Sanders Eric Schaal David E. Scherman Joe Scherschel Frank Scherschel Paul Schutzer John Shearer Sam Shere William C. Shrout George Silk George Skadding W. Eugene Smith Ian Smith …