Life magazine has chronicled the news in pictures for nearly 90 years. To mark the milestone anniversary, ... Hallsman’s image made the 1952 issue one of Life magazine’s most collectible.

W hile the legend of Marilyn Monroe will always be closely associated with LIFE—her first cover shoot for the magazine, in April 1952, made by the great Philippe Halsman, remains one of the most ...

Life magazines offer an affordable, readily available way to glance at events, places and people that shaped the past. Actually, there have been two Life magazines. From 1883 until the mid-1930s ...

She was on a wide variety of magazine covers and their values are almost always from $15 to $75; but, of course, some are in the hundreds. Pre-1953 covers of Marilyn are the most valuable. A few ...

A: A quick check of several magazine dealers confirmed that most issues of Life magazine from the 1960s are worth an average of about a dollar per issue. Like all collectibles, there are always ...