Photographs document the daily and nocturnal habits of a mysterious, unfathomable and yet oddly endearing life form: the teenage boy.
(Nina Leen—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
In 1961, during spring training in Florida, LIFE gave 25-year-old Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek a camera and asked him to photograph his teammates: Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford and the rest of the players on what would be seen, in time, as one of the greatest teams in baseball history.
The resulting photos were never published…until now.
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Rare photos — and the mystery behind a single, censored photograph — taken 70 years ago during World War II’s pivotal Battle of Eniwetok.
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Sweet, sexy portraits of Steve McQueen and Neile Adams: On Valentine’s Day, LIFE pays tribute to grown-up love, romance and sex‚ in all their messy, unkempt glory.
(Photo: John Dominis—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
On her 81st birthday, movie legend Kim Novak recalls what it was like to appear in LIFE magazine as a young actress on the rise in the Hollywood of the 1950s.
(Photo: Leonard McCombe—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Curiouser and curiouser: LIFE magazine’s world of miscellany, 1952. Here, a girl with 31 heads.
Remembering Shirley Temple: Child star, political player and cultural icon.
(Photo: Peter Stackpole—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Black lace and woolen undies: fashion in postwar Paris.
(Photo: Bob Landry—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
As the 138th annual Westminster Dog Show gets underway in New York, LIFE presents photos celebrating a rare and singularly winning breed: The Yorkie.
(Photo: Nina Leen—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Young Mia Farrow: rare and classic photos of an actress on the rise.
(Photo: Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
John Loengard, who photographed the Beatles in a Florida swimming pool 50 years ago this month, shares the story of making the famous picture—and explains why he doesn’t really like the photo all that much.
(Photo: John Loengard—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
(Photo: John Loengard—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
William S. Burroughs at 100: on the centenary of the writer and spoken-word pioneer’s birth, LIFE presents photos of the famed iconoclast in Paris in 1959.
(Photo: Loomis Dean—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Women of the Winter Olympics: vintage photos of amazing athletes.
(Photo: George Silk—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
