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Nearly 90 years after the first issue of LIFE, we visited a treasure trove of old LIFE issues at @brattlebookshop in Boston, Massachusetts. Ken Gloss, proprietor of the bookstore, gave us a look inside his collection of over 7,000 magazines, including some of LIFE’s most iconic stories.
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Director: @nicky_spaghetti
06 Nov 2026
Issue 1 contributors: the photographers, writers, and videographers who helped breathe LIFE back into the world.
11.23.26
Visit the link in our bio to learn more and follow for updates on the launch of our first issue.
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30 Oct 2026
The new era of LIFE begins on the Bering Sea.
The first of our six new covers features Andrew Jarrell, a commercial fisherman in Alaska, embarking on his ninth expedition for gray cod. His photographs capture an unpredictable time of year on an already unforgiving stretch of ocean. The work is dangerous, rewarding, and vital — a reminder that our survival depends on people doing all kinds of jobs, and they are worthy of our attention.
In its 90-year history, LIFE has brought readers to war zones and outer space, as well as into bedrooms and backyards. Our photographers have captured presidents, football stars, chain gangs, the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, a suburban family having a cookout.
LIFE put a spotlight on lives that might otherwise feel far from our own. The new issue will do the same.
Issue 1 is on shelves 11.23.2026.
At the link in our bio, sign up to be the first to be notified when it drops, and follow us to see all of the covers from the first issue.
Photograph by @1badcod
28 Oct 2026
LIFE returns to print 11.23.26.
Read our Editors’ Letter and learn more about the new LIFE at the link in our bio.
28 Oct 2026
LIFE is back. 11.23.26.
Nearly a century ago, the first issue of LIFE featured a photograph of Montana’s Fort Peck Dam on its cover. The image reflected a rapidly changing America, a people and culture in motion.
As LIFE returns to print this November, in a world evolving faster than ever, we are reintroducing the title in the same place its story started.
For those of you who have loved LIFE for many years — and those of you just discovering it for the first time — we are excited to show you what’s in store.
Read our full Editors' Letter in the Glasgow Courier this morning, in Valley County.
Video by @seanrheavey.
Archival cover: Margaret Bourke-White, 1936 / LIFE Picture Collection
28 Oct 2026
A star was born in Brooklyn, New York. Barbra Streisand was only 22 years old when she took Broadway by storm in the hit musical Funny Girl (1964).
For more than six decades, Streisand has established herself as one of the entertainment industry’s most celebrated and versatile talents. Alongside her early stage success, she rose to the top of the charts in the mid-1960s with signature recordings such as “People” and “Don’t Rain on My Parade.” As her music career flourished, Streisand continued her on-screen appearances in films such as “Hello, Dolly” (1969), “The Way We Were” (1973), and “A Star Is Born” (1976) before branching into producing and directing.
In 1970, at the age of 27, Streisand became the youngest artist to achieve noncompetitive EGOT status, earning recognition across the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.
This #InternationalDayofMusic, we celebrate Streisand’s extraordinary voice, trailblazing career, and enduring contributions to the world of music and entertainment. Here’s to a true legend who didn’t just become a star; she helped redefine what a star could be.
(Image credits)
1. “Barbra Streisand” by Philippe Halsman, 1965. Gelatin silver print. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © Philippe Halsman Archive.
2. @life Magazine’s March 18, 1966 cover #BarbraStreisand
3. “Barbra Streisand” by Bill Eppridge, 1966. The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock.
01 Oct 2026
Ernest Hemingway was born #OnThisDay in 1899. He penned classics like “The Old Man and the Sea” (1952) and “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (1940).
Through his short stories and novels, he chronicled the disillusionment of the post–World War I “lost generation.” His terse, powerful prose invented a new literary style.
In his life, Hemingway had his own experiences of adventure: reporting foreign wars, living the bohemian life in Paris, and adventuring in Africa, Spain, and Cuba. This fueled his imagination and fostered his larger-than-life public persona.
When photographer Yousuf Karsh visited the author in Cuba in 1957 to take these photographs, he “expected to meet in the author a composite of the heroes of his novels.” Instead, the photographer recalled, “I found a man of peculiar gentleness, the shyest man I ever photographed—a man cruelly battered by life but seemingly invincible.”
(Image Credits)
1. “Ernest Hemingway’ by Yousuf Karsh, 1957. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © Estate of Yousuf Karsh
2. @LIFE magazine’s July 14, 1961 cover #ErnestHemingway
3. “Ernest Hemingway” by Yousuf Karsh, 1957. Courtesy of @yousuf_karsh_official. © Estate of Yousuf Karsh
21 Jul 2026
Fourth of July fireworks display at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 1959.
According to the photographer Ralph Crane's notes, the "glow in the audience" comes from "announcer's request that each person in the audience light a match, simultaneously." There were over 75,000 people in attendance.
(📷 Ralph Crane, July 4, 1959 / LIFE Picture Collection)
04 Jul 2026
LIFE followed the escapades of Patti McCarty and Betty Brooks around Catalina Island for our June 9th, 1941 issue.
Both 20, McCarty (at left) and Brooks considered the trip a "treat," since "Patti had never been off the California mainland and Betty had never been on a boat..." The magazine also noted that Betty was "a devoted reader of Schopenhauer and Freud."
(📸 Peter Stackpole, 1941 / LIFE Picture Collection)
#catalinaisland #california #summerfun #lifemagazine #peterstackpole
03 Jul 2026
Fourteen-year-old Donald Rich of Queens shows off his invention "Robetron" at the International Gadget Show, 1958.
According to coverage in The New York Times, Robetron could "move forward or backward forty feet and stops automatically at any obstruction. It moves its arms, picks up objects in magnetic hands, turns its head, blinks electrically lighted eyes..."
(📷 Ralph Morse, April 1958 / LIFE Picture Collection)
#robot #lifemagazine #ralphmorse
02 Jul 2026
Thor the Great Dane rides shotgun, Los Angeles, 1961.
(📷 Ralph Crane / LIFE Picture Collection)
#lifemagazine #ralphcrane #greatdanes #1960s
01 Jul 2026
In 1956, LIFE photographer Ralph Crane traveled the country to document the new "trailer life."
"The modern trailerite," LIFE's editors wrote, "is found parked in a congenial campsite, lounging inside an air-conditioned trailer on a foam rubber sofa and listening to soft hi-fi recordings while a roast for the family sizzles in an automatic electric oven..."
(📸 Ralph Crane, Lake Tahoe, 1956 / LIFE Picture Collection)
#lifemagazine #ralphcrane #laketahoe #summerfun #nevada
30 Jun 2026
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