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LIFE – Editors Picks

• Love Letter to New York: Classic LIFE Photos - February 21, 2012 at 13:40
  The monuments and the museums, the pulsing crowds on Fifth Avenue, opera at the Met and stickball in Spanish Harlem, sardines on the subway and the romantic urban vistas of Central Park: Over the years LIFE’s photographers explored every corner [...][...]
• On the Stump: Classic Photos From the Campaign Trail - February 21, 2012 at 13:10
  In the midst of the strangest primary season in memory, LIFE looks at candidates — the revered, the reviled and the long-forgotten — on the campaign trail, and pays fond tribute to the perpetual carnival that is American politics.[...]
• Inside Hitler’s Bunker: Unpublished Photos - February 21, 2012 at 13:00
  Shortly before Berlin fell in the spring of '45, marking the end of WWII in Europe, LIFE photographer William Vandivert made his way to the German capital -- and to the ruined bunker where Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun spent their last, desperate hours.[...]
• Mardi Gras in 1938: Unpublished Photos - February 20, 2012 at 17:57
  In 1938, LIFE sent photographer William Vandivert to New Orleans to cover the debauchery, whimsy and unalloyed fun of Mardi Gras. Seven decades later, LIFE.com presents unpublished pictures from the Big Easy.[...]
• LIFE Rides With the Hells Angels - February 15, 2012 at 16:14
  From Jesse James and Butch Cassidy to Scarface and Tony Soprano, outlaws have always held a singularly ambiguous place in America’s popular imagination: we fear and loathe gangsters’ appetite for violence; we envy and covet their freedom. In early [...]
• LIFE on Both Sides of the Camera: Alfred Eisenstaedt’s Surprising Self-Portraits - February 15, 2012 at 01:00
  Alfred Eisenstaedt's photographic vision wasn't limited to the intimate pictures he made of the 20th century's most famous faces. Here, a celebration of the great photographer's unexpected and singularly charming self-portraits.[...]
• Eve Arnold: Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam - February 14, 2012 at 13:30
  On the anniversary of Malcolm X's 1965 assassination, LIFE.com presents Eve Arnold's photographs of the intensely charismatic street thug-turned-devout Muslim and activist, in public and in private.[...]
• Steve McQueen: Unpublished Photos - February 14, 2012 at 12:28
  In the spring of 1963, Steve McQueen was on the brink of superstardom, already popular from his big-screen breakout as one of The Magnificent Seven and just a couple months away from entering the Badass Hall of Fame with the [...][...]
• Miles Davis: Unpublished Photos of a Jazz Giant - February 13, 2012 at 10:36
  On a spring night in May 1958, LIFE photographer Robert W. Kelley shot a few rolls of film at an intimate jazz gig in New York City. Those photographs, featuring musical legends-in-the-making, were never published. Until now.[...]
• Jimmy Stewart: A Hero Home From the War - February 13, 2012 at 10:12
  In September 1945 a beloved movie star — now a decorated WWII hero — returned to his quiet hometown in Pennsylvania. LIFE was there to chronicle the utterly wholesome goings on.[...]