Vintage Photographs From the Liberation of Buchenwald, April 1945

Of the indispensable photographs taken during the Second World War, Margaret Bourke-White’s image of survivors at Buchenwald in April 1945 — “staring out at their Allied rescuers,” as LIFE magazine put it, “like so many living corpses” — remains among the most haunting. The faces of the men, young and old, staring from behind the wire, “barely able to believe that they would be delivered from a Nazi camp where the only deliverance had been death,” attest with an awful eloquence to the depths of human depravity and, maybe even more powerfully, to the measureless lineaments of human endurance.

What few people recall about Bourke-White’s survivors-at-the-wire image, however, is that it did not even appear in LIFE until 15 years after it was made, when it was published alongside other photographic touchstones in the magazine’s December 26, 1960, special double-issue, “25 Years of LIFE.”

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Fun and Interesting Snapshots of New Yorkers From the Late 19th Century

These candid snapshots show what life was like in New York in the late 19th century.

A man at the beach in push-up position with a barrel around his waist, September 8, 1897

A fully-dressed couple sitting back-to-back while reading on beach; low wooden pier spans ocean in background, Manhattan Beach, New York, August 30, 1884

A fully-dressed woman wading at the shore of the beach in Sag Harbor, LI, New York, August 31, 1889

A man in a suit and bowler hat jumping in the air in a backyard in Brooklyn, New York, 1890

A man standing at the edge of a dock, casting his fishing line, 1890

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11 Never-Before-Seen Photographs of the Titanic Taken by Father Frank Browne SJ

These photos taken by Father Browne SJ show a glimpse of what things were like before the ship went down.

During his lifetime, Father Francis Browne was known for the photographs he took aboard the Titanic, from which he – fortunately – disembarked at County Cork shortly before its sinking in 1912.

But 25 years after his death in 1960, a large trunk of negatives was discovered in the Jesuit house where he'd lived in County Laois. Browne had never printed his pictures. There were 42,000.

The last photo of the Titanic taken by Father Francis Browne.

Members of the Titanic crew pose with lifejackets.

A boy plays aboard the deck of the Titanic.

A U.S. doctor inspects passenger’s eyes aboard the doomed ship.

Ladies disembark from the tender “America” onto the Titanic.

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Portraits of Parisian Women Taken by Jacques Henri Lartigue

Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986) was a French photographer and painter. Born in Courbevoie to a wealthy family, he is most famous for his photographs of automobile races, planes and fashionable Parisian women.

He started taking photographs when he was 7, his subject matter being primarily his own life and the people and activities in it. As a child he photographed his friends and family at play – running and jumping, racing wheeled soap boxes, building kites, gliders and aeroplanes, and climbing the Eiffel Tower.

He also photographed many famous sporting events, including automobile races such as the Coupe Gordon Bennett and the French Grand Prix, early flights by aviation pioneers including Gabriel Voisin, Louis Blériot, Louis Paulhan and Roland Garros, and the tennis player Suzanne Lenglen at the French Open tennis championships.

Below is a collection of 48 photographs taken by Jacques Henri Lartigue, they capture everyday life of Parisian women from the early 20th century.

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30 Amazing Vintage Photos of Celebrities Posing With Their Cameras

There’s nothing better than celebrities and their cameras. And there’s definitely nothing better than pictures of celebrities holding their vintage cameras.

Marilyn Monroe with a Nikon camera

Grace Kelly taking Frank Sinatra’s photo with a Hasselblad

Michael Jackson with an SLR

Mick Jagger with a Polaroid

Bob Dylan with a Nikon SP rangefinder

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Life at Daytona Beach in the 1970s and 1980s

Some amazing candid snapshots show everyday life at Daytona Beach in the 1970s and 1980s.

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David Bowie, Yoko Ono and John Lennon Attend the 17th Annual Grammy Awards at Uris Theater, New York, 1975

Although not up for any awards themselves, music icons David Bowie, Yoko Ono and John Lennon pose for photos while backstage at the 17th Annual Grammy Awards at Uris Theater, New York, March 1, 1975. John Lennon did present the coveted award for Record of the Year to John Farrar and Olivia Newton-John for "I Honestly Love You."

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