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Rock Stars with Their Parents

2012-02-07T10:40:00.000-08:00

Frank Zappa in his eclectic Los Angeles home with his cat, his dad Francis, and his mom Rosemarie, 1970

LIFE photographer John Olson sets up to shoot the Jackson Five in their back yard, 1970

Rose Clapp shows off her tea service and the rock-guitarist grandson she raised in the home he bought for her and her late husband in Surrey, England, 1970

The Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick poses with her mother, Virginia Wing, in the living room of the home where she grew up in Palo Alto, California, 1970

Life under the Soviets by Sergey Chilikov

2012-02-07T04:54:00.000-08:00

Unpublished JFK’s 1960 Run for the White House Photos

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On November 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States, defeating Richard Nixon in one of the closest national elections of the 20th century. At 43, Kennedy was (and remains) the youngest person elected to the office, and it was largely this quality in the man and his family — an engaging, youthful dynamism — that so captured the imagination of millions across the country and, ultimately, across the world.

As Kennedy and his team ran a heady, propulsive campaign unlike any America had seen, LIFE’s best photographers (Paul Schutzer, Alfred Eisenstaedt, George Silk, et al.) were there, chronicling the grind of never-ending public appearances and the quieter moments JFK spent with advisers, with Jackie, and — rarest of all — alone, with his own thoughts.

Early 20th Century in Color Photos

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Titanic Survivors, 1912

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Paris Ladies of the Night Circa the ‘50s And '60s

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GOP Women Party Hard, 1941

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“On the evening of May 20,” begins an article in the June 16, 1941, issue of LIFE magazine, “members of the Young Women’s Republican Club of Milford, Conn., explored the pleasures of tobacco, poker, the strip tease and such other masculine enjoyments as had frequently cost them the evening companionship of husbands, sons and brothers.”

Nina Leen chronicled the shenanigans that erupted when a group of GOP women got together for an old-fashioned “smoker.”

Early Unpublished Photos of Marilyn Monroe

2012-02-05T07:05:00.000-08:00

Few Hollywood stars of the 1950s and 1960s were so compelling, so utterly unique, that they actually came to define the era in which they worked and played. Marilyn Monroe was one of those stars.

From her earliest days as an actress until late in her career — when she had, against her will, been cast in the public eye as the century’s ultimate Sex Goddess — Marilyn posed for LIFE magazine’s photographers. Many of those pictures never ran in the magazine — and, in fact, were never published anywhere. This gallery changes all that.

Elvis returning from the Army, March 1960

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The Heart of Detroit, 1907

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Detroit circa 1907. "The Campus Martius." Landmarks include the Detroit Opera House, Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Cadillac Square, Wayne County Building and Hotel Pontchartrain. View full size.

By The Lamp

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Catherine Deneuve

Loretta Young

Alida Valli

Gene Tierney

Ginger Rogers

Freaky Retro Photos

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Marilyn Monroe Wardrobe Tests for "Niagara"

2012-02-03T05:57:00.000-08:00

Niagara is a 1953 thriller-film noir, released Twentieth Century-Fox, directed by Henry Hathaway, and starring Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter, and introducing Marilyn Monroe, in her first major film appearance. Unlike other film noirs of time, Niagara was filmed in Technicolor and CinemaScope, and was one of Fox's biggest box-office hits of the year. (Wikipedia)

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Beautiful Hildegard Knef's Eyes

2012-02-03T05:44:00.000-08:00

Hildegard Knef (December 28, 1925 – February 1, 2002) was a German actress, singer and writer. She was billed in some English language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff.

Hildegard Knef was born in Ulm. She began studying acting in 1940, aged 14. She appeared in several films even before the fall of the Third Reich, but most were not released until after World War II.

With Her Shoes

2012-02-02T09:00:00.000-08:00

Ava Gardner

Leslie Caron

Yvonne de Carlo

Anne Shirley

Ann Miller

Portraits of Ladies in Cardboard Outfits

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Dame di Cartone (“Cardboard Ladies”) is a project by Swiss-Italian photographer Christian Tagliavini in which he creates portraits of women that mimic the look of historical paintings. The styles include 17th century, fifties, and cubism.

Marilyn Monroe at home, 1953

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Real Photo Postcards produced in 1950

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Andy Warhol’s Unseen Polaroids from 1970 to 1987

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UC Berkeley Art Museum presents an installation of polaroids taken by Andy Warhol during the period of 1970 to 1987. The collection donated to the university museum is one of portraits depicting people of varied backgrounds including royalty, athletes, and musicians in addition to unknown individuals all photographed against a plain white backdrop. similar to the techniques of antiquated portraiture, several sitters are pictured with a prop indicative of their personality. the series of unknown photographs is comprised of polaroids typically created as the framework for commissioned silkscreened portraits by the artist.

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Never-before-seen Color Photos Inside Hitler's Private Home

2012-01-31T07:18:00.000-08:00

Several never-before-seen photographs have emerged from Adolf Hitler’s personal photographer, giving a first time look at Hitler’s Berlin apartment and Bavarian estate.

Photographer Hugo Jaeger was one of the few photographers working with color photography at the time and was granted access to Hitler’s living and study quarters, showing artwork and furnishings estimated to be worth millions even in pre-adjusted dollars. The pictures were taken in the two years leading up to the beginning of World War II.

In 1945, when the Allies were making their final push toward Munich, Jaeger found himself face to face with six American soldiers in a small town west of the city. During a search of the house where Jaeger was staying, the Americans found a leather suitcase in which Jaeger had hidden thousands of color photo transparencies. He knew he would be arrested (or worse) if the Americans discovered his film and his close connection to Hitler. He could never have imagined what happened next.

Jaeger then allegedly buried some of the pictures in 12 twelve glass jars outside Munich, returning to retrieve them in 1955.

Hitler's huge office in the Chancellery, Berlin, Germany, in the late 1930s or early 1940s

Hitler's private apartment above the Chancellery, giving a rare look at what he saw each day, and how he lived

This room in Hitler's Berlin apartment in the 'New Chancellery' reflects the Fuhrer's baroque, often sentimental taste

Between 1936 and 1945, Hugo Jaeger served as one of Adolf Hitler's personal photographers and was granted unprecedented access to the Fuhrer's private moments

Hitler was obsessed with the grandiose, as can be seen from the doors to the Chancellery, yet in his private rooms above there was an air of eerie domesticity

New York City in the 80s by Steven Siegel

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B&W Photographs of Cheerleaders in 1960s - 70s

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Beijing in Colors Photos, 1940s

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Soviet Photos 1960-70-ies

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On the construction of the oxygen-converter shop Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant, 1973 - ALEXANDER Abaza team.

Winter evening with the music, 1960 - Andriy

It is not my goddamned business, 1965 - Vladimir Bogdanov

Goalie, 1962 - VLADIMIR LAGRANGE

Winter, 1965 - IVAN Lunkov

County Fair, 1936

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