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Today, LIFE publishes a new physical issue every two weeks. Twenty six issues a year, and sometimes more. Each one steeped in today’s sensibilities and heartbeats, each one an exploration of popular culture and delight, driven by LIFE’s unmatched storytelling, in words and photos.
Every weekly issue of LIFE for its complete run from 1936-1972 is available via our partnership with Google. You can search by keyword (make sure you select “Search All Issues” under the search box), browse by year or peruse topics at the bottom of the page.
The third magazine published by Luce, after Time in 1923 and Fortune in 1930, Life developed as the definitive photo magazine in the U.S., giving as much space and importance to images as to words. The first issue of Life , which sold for ten cents (worth $2.2 in 2023), had five pages of Alfred Eisenstaedt's photographs.
Life Magazine is a photographic magazine chronicling the 20th Century. Browse all issues of Life Magazine in full color and search the full text through Google Books.
Many of the classic LIFE magazine covers on display in 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' were, in fact, never LIFE covers at all.
