Photos of everything from Hitchcock to Pearl Harbor ...

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Photographer Spotlight: Peter Stackpole

A celebration of the extraordinary career of one of LIFE magazine's "original four" — the quartet of masterful photographers on the masthead when LIFE launched in November 1936. (Above: Allied troops on Saipan during WWII.)

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