Explore 1960s within the LIFE photography vault, one of the most prestigious & privately held archives from the US & around the World.

Carter became such a fixture in public life, it was hard to believe he’d burst onto the national scene seemingly out of nowhere in 1976 to wrest the presidency from Gerald Ford. A polarizing war, racial …

With more than ten million original prints, negatives, slides, and transparency shots, see why LIFE's photo archive will always remain timeless.

The following is adapted from the introduction to LIFE’s newcspecial issue 100 Photographs: The Most Important Pictures of All Time and the Stories Behind Them, available at newsstands and online: …

The breadth of the GE operations underlines the great variety of activity that legendary LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt documented when he gained access to the General Electric …

LIFE recalls the Orient Express of the last century through photographs made in 1950 -- evocative, atmospheric pictures from another time.

But some of LIFE’s bed portraits have a heavier mood. Consider a photo of William S. Burroughs, taken by Loomis Dean. The author of such novels as Naked Lunch and Junky is wearing a suit as he sits …

In 1947 America was in the midst of an ongoing wedding boom, owing to soldiers returning from World War II. LIFE decided to pay tribute to “this burgeoning romanticism” by dispatching staff …

The following text is adapted from the introduction to LIFE’s new special issue The Smurfs, available at newsstands and online. In 2011, people around the world donned white caps and pants and painted …

In 1947 Jane Greer starred opposite Robert Mitchum in the film noir classic Out of the Past, and the success of that film helped earn her a place on the cover of LIFE. That movie was a crowning …