Life Magazine

Margaret Bourke-White, photograph from “Franklin Roosevelt’s Wild West,” LIFE, November 23, 1936
Female Photographers Who Shaped the Way We Look at the World
All employed by LIFE magazine, these women—six of the most important photographers of the past century—contributed to the development of modern photojournalism between the 1930s and the early 1970s.
Audience watches movie wearing 3-D spectacles, 1952
Life Magazine and the Power of Photography
Life magazine visualized a distinctly mid-20th-century American worldview and fundamentally shaped modern ideas about photography.
Gordon Parks (American, 1912–2006), Untitled (The da Silva Family), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Negative, 1976
Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story
On view July 9-November 10, 2019 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story explores one of the most important photo essays Parks produced for Life magazine and traces…