75 years

In 1936, Henry Luce founded a new weekly magazine that proved an overnight sensation, presenting to readers the world in pictures. Down the decades, LIFE became famous for its war and celebrity coverage, its photo essays, and its "never before seen" shots. Today it is represented in a thriving line of books found on its web site, LIFE.com. In this deluxe commemorative edition, LIFE's editors focus on the publication's achievements more tightly than they ever have before. This work includes a review of every LIFE cover ever published, as well as a reproduction of the first LIFE issue with the Margaret Bourke-White photograph of the Fort Peck Dam on the cover.