TOP 50 legendary LIFE magazine photographs
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The LIFE magazine archive counts millions of excellent pictures. Oldpics attempted to select the best 50 of them. LIFE magazine always managed…
Everybody remembers Winston Churchill as an iron prime-minister from the picture of Yusuf Karsh. This photo is undoubtfully the best-known Prime minister’s…
15 best LIFE magazine covers
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Oldpics continues to be of the view that almost all pictures from LIFE Magazine covers are iconic. Here’s why we selected photos…
64 Amazing photos by Alfred Eisenstaedt
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Alfred Eisenstaedt photos are an integral part of the history of photojournalism. He captured informal portraits of kings, dictators, scientists, athletes, and…
The frivolous nightlife of Paris of the 1950s (and other decades) always attracted brilliant photographers. Frank Horvat was one of them. In…
Fred Herzog started taking pictures of Vancouver in the late 1950s when he moved to the city. He defined a key to…
Jacques Dupaquier was a French scientist, historian, and member of the Communist Party of France, and he visited Moscow in the 1950s….
The story of Rescue at Redding, 1953
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Newspaper editors called this picture ‘Rescue at Redding’. Virginia Shaw wasn’t a professional photographer, but her image won the Pulitzer prize next…
Both times it was a stolen plane that Thomas Fitzpatrick piloted on a drunk. The first incident happened on a warm September…
This photo was taken on April 15, 1957, at Victoria Bus Station before the first trip on the longest ever bus route…