Iconic 'Life' Magazine Covers

LIFE was an American magazine that ran weekly from 1883 to 1972, published initially as a humor and general interest magazine. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936, solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name, and shifted it to a role as a weekly news magazine with a strong emphasis on photojournalism. LIFE was published weekly until 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and as a monthly from 1978 to 2000.

After the monthly LIFE folded, Time Inc. continued to use the LIFE brand for special and commemorative issues. LIFE returned to regularly scheduled issues when it became a weekly newspaper supplement from 2004 to 2007. On January 30, 2012 the LIFE.com URL became a photo channel on Time.com.

Life Magazine November 23, 1936 : Premier Issue

Life Magazine August 9, 1943 : Cover - Steel worker

Life Magazine May 21, 1945 : Cover - Winston Churchill, his life

Life Magazine April 9, 1945 : Cover - Demolition on Iwo Jima

Life Magazine May 14, 1945 : Cover - Victorious Yank - Strickland in front of Nazi emblem in Nurnberg

Life Magazine January 17, 1955 : Cover - Military Appraisal at Moscow Trolley Stop.

Life Magazine August 22, 1949 : Cover - American Cowboy

Life Magazine April 7, 1952 : Cover - Marilyn Monroe - talk of Hollywood, the iconic photo of her in the ruched white off-the-shoulder gown.

Life Magazine December 6, 1954 : Cover - Measurement for future flight, airmen gird for the new jet age.

Life Magazine April 30, 1965 : Cover - Living 18-week-old inside its amniotic sac.

Life Magazine April 16, 1965 : Cover - gruesome scene inside a helicopter Yankee Papa 13 in a fight, with chaos and a dying pilot.

Life Magazine August 10, 1969 : 1969 Moon Special Edition - To the moon and back.

Life Magazine March 6, 1964 : Cover - Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston.

Life Magazine May 1, 1964 : Cover - World's Fair sculpture Unisphere.

Life Magazine May 29, 1964 : Cover - Jacqueline Kennedy.

Life Magazine June 5, 1964 : Cover - Cremation of Nehru, color photos of ceremony and lighting of the pyre.

Life Magazine November 6, 1964 : Cover - Shirley Eaton, gilded (gold covered) for her role in Goldfinger.

Life Magazine October 16, 1964 : Cover - Man and boy hanging from ropes in shaft.

Life Magazine August 28, 1964 : Cover - The Beatles are back in the U.S., raising a ruckus again, mayhem at the San Francisco airport

Life Magazine October 23, 1964 : Cover - Leonid Brezhnev - Russia's new leader, take over in the Kremlin.

Life Magazine June 5, 1939 : Cover - America's future, the Statue of Liberty.

Life Magazine July 2, 1945 : Cover - American Flag with naval ships, US Navy defending Independence.

LIFE magazine, May 25, 1953. Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, photographed by Ed Clark.

LIFE magazine, April 20, 1959. Marilyn Monroe photographed by Richard Avedon.

LIFE magazine, November 9, 1959. Marilyn Monroe, photographed by Philippe Halsman

Life Magazine November 29, 1963 : Cover - President John F. Kennedy

Life Magazine January 25, 1963 : Fold-out Cover - Vietnamese prisoners in boat - In Mekong Delta, Vietnam troops take communist prisoners to headquarters.

Life Magazine February 1, 1963 : Cover - Alfred Hitchcock with three ravens, his movie “The Birds.”

Life Magazine March 15, 1963 : Cover - Fidel Castro in black and white.

Life Magazine April 19, 1963 : Cover - Richard Burton and Liz Taylor.

Life Magazine June 21, 1963 : Cover - Shirley MacLaine as Irma La Douce, super cute photo.

Life Magazine July 5, 1963 : Cover - New Pope Paul VI spectacle at the Sistine Chapel.

Life Magazine December 13, 1963 : Cover - Lyndon Johnson in the White House.

Life Magazine December 6, 1963:Cover - JFK funeral - Jackie with children.

Life Magazine June 12, 1964 : Cover - U.S. Army Captain Robert Bacon in Vietnam

Life Magazine November 27, 1964 : Cover - Vietnam with soldiers and forest on fire - special forces Captain Vernon Gillespie Jr. on the radio.

Life Magazine November 26, 1965 : Cover - Vietcong prisoner, held by US marines, eyes and mouth taped shut.

Life Magazine February 11, 1966 : Cover - gruesome black and white photo of injured soldiers in Viet Nam

Life Magazine October 28, 1966 : Cover - Vietnam : Marines' crucial battle to block North Vietnamese invasion of DMZ (Demilitarized Zone).

Life Magazine April 7, 1967 : Cover - North Vietnam under siege photographed by American Lee Lockwood.

Life Magazine August 25, 1967 : Cover - US Marine and Vietnamese boy return to Hoa Hiep after fishing.

Life Magazine October 20, 1967 : Cover - In a prison camp near Hanoi, Lt. Paul E. Galanti.

Life Magazine November 8, 1968 : The hope of peace in Andien Vietnam, Nguyen Thi Tron gets a new wooden leg.

Life Magazine February 18, 1952 : Cover - New Queen Elizabeth II.

Life Magazine October 16, 1944 : Cover - Lauren Bacall.

Life Magazine May 22, 1950 : Cover - the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

Life Magazine December 17, 1951 : Cover - Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.

Life Magazine April 26, 1954 : Cover - Grace Kelly

Life Magazine September 23, 1940 : Cover - Eileen Dunne, English air-raid victim.

Life Magazine November 30, 1936 : Cover - West Point Military Academy

Life Magazine June 18, 1965 : Cover - Space walk.

Life Magazine September 24, 1971 : Cover - the Jackson Five with Mom and Pop.

Life Magazine January 30, 1970 : Cover - A Japanese Snow Monkey soaking in a natural hot spring with snow on his head.

Life Magazine October 31, 1969 : Cover - Marijuana joint : at least 12 million Americans have now tried it.

Life Magazine August 6, 1956 : Cover - In the dawn off Nantucket survivors from the heavily listing " Andrea Doria" are rowed to safety.

Life Magazine June 6, 1969 : Cover - Photo of Apollo 10 flying over the moon.

Life Magazine December 19, 1969 : Cover - Charles Manson, cult leader.

Life Magazine July 20, 1953 : Cover - Senator Kennedy goes a-courting.

Life Magazine February 22, 1954 : Cover - How Disney makes an undersea movie - Jules Verne characters.

Life Magazine May 15, 1970 : Cover - Kent State student lies wounded.

Life Magazine March 29, 1943 : Cover - Joseph Stalin.

Life Magazine June 12, 1944 : Cover - A view from the bomb bay doors of a US plane as it drops 500lb ordnance on an oil refinery during an air raid over Livorno, Italy.

LIFE Magazine WEEKLY March 4, 1991 : In Time of War. Special Weekly Edition, Number 2. Cover : A Marine carrying a US Flag near the front.

Life Magazine August 9, 1963 : Cover - Harriman and Khrushchev chat after treaty.

Life Magazine November 25, 1946 : Cover - Tenth anniversary, Nancy Maloney of Long Island reading premier issue of LIFE.

Life Magazine October 19, 1962 : Cover - Cascade of fire lights Yosemite at dusk.

Life Magazine August 16, 1943 : Cover - How strong is Japan?

Life Magazine January 15, 1945 : Cover - General Patton.

Life Magazine July 2, 1945 : Cover - American Flag with naval ships, US Navy defending Independence.

Life Magazine November 18, 1957 : Cover - Werner Von Braun, top U.S. Space Expert, and Moon Rocket model.

Life Magazine November 2, 1962 : Cover - US Navy off Cuba.

Life Magazine January 4, 1963 : Cover - The Miracle of Greece.

Life Magazine June 16, 1952 : Cover - Ike's return, photo of Eisenhower by Hank Walker.

Life Magazine December 18, 1950 : Cover - George C. Marshall, Secretary of defense.

Life Magazine November 18, 1966 : Cover - Robert Kennedy

Life Magazine May 15, 1944 : Cover - General Bernard Law Montgomery.

Life Magazine April 24, 1944 : Cover - Princess Elizabeth is 18.

Life Magazine December 1984 : Cover - Princess Diana and new baby - big feature inside.

Life Magazine August 8, 1969 : Cover - On the moon : Apollo 11 photo of the American flag and footprints.

Life Magazine December 12, 1969 : Cover - Apollo 12 on the moon

Life Magazine August 22, 1938 : Cover - awesome photo of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers doing the Yam dance

Life Magazine July 2, 1971 : Cover - Our Indian Heritage.

Life Magazine January 28, 1972 : Cover - John Wayne - sepia tone.

Life Magazine March 3, 1972 : Cover - Mao Tse-Tung.

Life Magazine March 10, 1972 : Cover - Marlon Brando plays the Godfather.

Life Magazine September 15, 1972 : Cover - Olympic parade, the Israeli team.

Life Magazine January 1980 : Cover - Ayatullah Khomeini, Iran.

Life magazine January 1982 : Cover - Princess Diana's wedding.

Life Magazine August 1999 : Cover - Jacqueline Kennedy and daughter Caroline in 1959.

Life Magazine August 1992 : Cover - Princess Diana, what happened and why.

Life Magazine February 3, 1941 : Cover - Propaganda Minister Goebbels and Field Marshal Goring.

Life Magazine April 1986 : Cover - Caroline, Princess of Monaco.

Life Magazine December 29, 1941 : Cover - US Aerial Gunner, Delbert C. Gilliam of Smackover, Arkansas.

Life Magazine Spring/Summer 1985 : World War II Special Issue - 40 years later.

Life Magazine Spring 1988 : Special issue - Civil Rights, the dream then and now.

January 28, 2005: The cover features a version of the iconic 'V-J Day' Life cover, by Alfred Eisenstadt, digitally manipulated to include a hand holding a mobile phone, and accompanied by the headline 'The Cameraphone Revolution'

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