LIFE Magazine
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“The Most Beautiful Suicide”: The Story Behind Robert Wiles’ 1947 Photograph of Evelyn McHale
Lying cradled in the crumpled roof of a United Nations limousine outside the Empire State Building on May 1, 1947, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale appears strikingly serene in a photograph captured by Robert Wiles just minutes after her tragic death.
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The Sand of Buna Beach: The Photograph That Confronted a Nation with the Cost of War
Three dead American soldiers lie half-buried in the wet sand of New Guinea in George Strock’s quiet, devastating 1943 photograph—the first image of fallen US troops allowed to reach the American public during World War II.