#life magazine

[vintage-every-day]

A teenage boy in Des Moines, Iowa, 1945. Photo taken by Nina Leen.

[lisamarie-vee]

[inthedarktrees]

Ballerinas standing on window sill in rehearsal room at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Life, 1936

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Marilyn Monroe (1952)

[wh0-is-lily]

Marilyn Monroe in, "The Hat Sitting," for LIFE Magazine, June 1958 Photography by Carl Perutz in New York, NYC

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Life magazine, September 28, 1928. Cover art by Russell Patterson.

Photo: Condé Nast  Store

[70sgroovy]

high schoolers photographed by arthur schatz for life magazine, 1969

[twixnmix]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Richard Avedon as Theda Bara in "Cleopatra" (1917) for LIFE magazine, 1958.

[jedivoodoochile]

[mote-historie]

Frank Xavier Leyendecker, Life Magazine cover, The Flapper, 2. February 1922

[coffeeandcinemaandmusic]

In 1963 photographer Bert Stern photographed some of the top actors/actresses at the height of their fame playing their dream roles for a photo series in LIFE magazine's December 20, 1963 issue.

Cary Grant as Charlie Chaplin's Tramp / Audrey Hepburn as Pearl White in 'Perils of Pauline' / Tony Curtis & Natalie Wood as Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky in 'The Sheik' / Paul Newman as a Douglas Fairbanks Sr. swashbuckler / Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin as Judah Ben-Hur and Messala from 'Ben-Hur' / Bing Crosby & Bob Hope as 1930s gangsters / Jack Lemmon as a war pilot / Shirley MacLaine as one of Busby Berkeley's showgirls / Rock Hudson as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

[fawnvelveteen]

A scene from a road trip through the American Northwest, 1960.

J.R. Eyerman The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock

[halloweenlandmotherfucker]

The Flapper Vampire. A Coles Phillips cover illustration for LIFE Magazine in 1925.

[inthedarktrees]

Nina Leen, “Summer Underwear,” Life, May 1949  

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Vampira (1954)

[wh0-is-lily]

'Summer Underwear' for LIFE Magazine⁣, 1949 Photography by Nina Leen