While 2020 marks 25 years of Getty Images, we represent historic collections from around the world with their own story to tell. Here, gettyarchive takes a closer look at life – a publishing phenomenon that defined the American lens for decades.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ “To see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events; to watch the faces of the poor & the gestures of the proud; to see strange things — machines, armies, multitudes, shadows in the jungle & on the moon; to see man’s work — his paintings, towers & discoveries; to see things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls & within rooms, things dangerous to come to…to see & take pleasure in seeing; to see & be amazed; to see & be instructed...”⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ The founder of LIFE, Henry Luce outlines his vision for the new weekly in 1936, the year of its launch. Reviving a light entertainment title first printed in 1883, it was to join Time & Fortune in the media magnate's impressive portfolio. The first magazine of its kind in the US, the ...